John Wayne.

YES Charlita, the mother of this newborn baby boy and her boyfriend, Ruel, decided to go with an extreme americanized name. They named him John Wanye Ninzon! It was somewhat of a complicated birth (they are not all like that, but all mine have been..) but it was cool to witness/help with because Ruel was SO into 'it'. and by IT, i mean, EVERYthing...watching it come out, doing whatever was needed to help Charlita, as you can see from the last picture here, he's alREADy such a prOUd father.

here Sarah (blue scrub) is inserting an IV because of the long labour, Mayflor (pink scrub) is checking fetal heart tones, and I am playing BACKcAtcherrr ;) waiting for the baby to pop out. [oh, and Let-Let is the a birthing stool we call the antipolo, i'm not sure whY it's called that but, it's fun to use because theres no bEd to catch the baby, so that slippery sucker's all mINE when it does come!]

little, blue, John Wayne, a very healthy baby boy, just SEConds after being born!

aaand the new family - Charlita, Ruel and John, plus John's grandmother, and midwife.

SO, yes...I have delivered a total of five babies. And number will ONly continue to grow faster and faster as I go from 3 shifts/week in December, to FOUR/week for the rest of my time here. [oh my gOSH. this is gonna be nUTS]