mga cONTinuities.. =S

Since July 3rd I've had not one, not tWO, not thREE, but fOUR continuities deliver!! THe latter three have actually been in the past 3 days!! CRAZINESS.

The first delivered July 3 @ 12:30am - taken on as a continuity because I had already done a random 4 prenatals on her, and thought it must be fate (char). THIS one took the longest, and tested my patience...although her vitals were always so good and normal, she was only progressing at about 1cm every 3 hours. GOOdness! I spent over 20 hours straight with her at the clinic, starting at 8:45am in the morning, seeing 2 shifts of midwives come and go, and fINally on nightshift, and with a little encouragement and mORE than a little help from CS, her second baby boy came out at 2:30am very normally. Her last birth ended in an episiotomy, which split open this time, but other than that, a very normal, uncomplicated birth!

The second delivered July 19 @ 3:05pm - taken on as a continuity at 9 months because her husband, who happened to be my motorcycle driver that day asked if she could deliver at Mercy. She'd been prenatal care elsewhere, but was so thankful to be allowed to deliver her baby girl at Mercy! It was a thE best birth I've seen for a primigravida - so smooth, and fast, and easy.

THe third delivered July 21 @ 12:36pm - taken on as a continuity because she was Allison's cont last pregnancy, plus was scheduled for EPO (something to naturally stimulate labour) on July 22 because she was postdates. BUT, praise the Lord, EPO wasn't needed, labour started spontaneously, and went as fast as the last time (hahaa, supposedly AR had mentioned something about not being sutured the first time, and therefore her pwerta was big enough to facilitate a very fast birth! She was very proud of this fact and told me upon admission). Her third baby boy was born a fighter, with great APGAR scores and whatnot.

The fOURth delivered July 22 @ 2:42am - taken on as a continuity because she dazzled me early on in prenatals (and she has the same name as one particularly dear to my heart, aND the last name of a friend here in the phils - I wanted to ask if it was a relative of some sort (it wasn't)). Michelle delivered her first baby girl after a night of praying she wouldn't need to be transported due to fetal tachycardia and borderline high bp. She opened at a rate of 2cm per hour - twice as fast as normal - and pushed like a champ. So much so, that she had a third degree tear, and we ALmost transported the suturing, but dear Ate Susan came on shift jUST in time to stitch her up. What a great night!! Michelle (pictured above) is such a sweetheart!