humor from delivery 101

I had to post these two stories...

There was a student nurse training in the delivery room. They are taught to estimate the dilation of the cervix by feel (because you can't exactly shine a flashlight up there and look). Well, this gal goes to give the lady (in the stages of labor at this point) an exam to see how far dilated she is. She's up in this lady's business, and remarks about how small the cervix is. The pregnant lady has been in labor for a while, and the nurse really pushes hard, trying to figure out why the cervix is still tight. She reports to the head nurse that the lady can't be very far dilated. The head nurse checks, and finds out that the baby is in breach birth position...that is, rear end first. Sooo, yeah. That baby had a very unpleasant moment in the womb, prior to making his or her entrance into the world. blech.

A nurse was, once again, giving an exam, to check for cervical dilation. While in there, the baby actually grabbed one of her fingers! Having your fingers in that place and then suddenly feeling someone grab them is a very unsettling moment. In order to get the baby to let go of her finger, she simply started wiggling them back and forth. Remember where the fingers were. The woman in labor shot her eyes down at the nurse and looked at her as if she were the biggest perv on the face of the planet. oops!