Oh Baby!

So after a very long, but appreciated break, I'm back in the swing of things with school. I have finished all the classes and passed all the necessary exams....they're letting me bust into the hospital! I have 90 weeks of rotations ahead of me, but I like to look at it more in small chunks. My first "chunk" is OBGYN. I started Monday and so far everything is going wonderfully! i have been privileged to see quite a few in office procedures (pap smears, annual exams, STD screens, etc) but the real fun for me came today. The doctor I'm following has it set up as so: He shows me, then it's up to me. While I am not legally allowed to do everything I would like to do, I jump at the chance to do what I can. Today was the highlight of that chance for me so far. Until today, we had only seen gynecology patients (girl parts...ya know), but today we had a few OB patients. For the first one, he showed me how to use the doppler machine to detect the fetal heart beat. Therefore, since he showed me, the next one was up to me. The patient was super nice about everything! I assured her that if when I put the doppler on, if we didn't hear anything at first, it was no indication that her baby didn't have a heartbeat, but that instead it was my first time trying to locate one so it might take me a while. To my surprise, it only took me about 15 seconds. I was like a kid in a candy store. This huge...and I mean HUGE grin hit my face. There was life inside of her and I could hear it!!! I'm blown away by the way God created us...I think that is the biggest thing I am learning from all of this.

Tomorrow will be my real test: 24 hour shift at the hospital. I freak out at the idea of being late, so I will be there by 6:30, but My doctor is the on-call doctor for tomorrow at the hospital, which means I'm on call also! :) However, this is not the, we carry a pager and live our normal life until it goes off kind of on call. I will be at the hospital from 6:30 tomorrow morning until at least 7am Saturday morning. While I know that's going to be a long time...I'm pretty excited about it. He's the person in charge of the entire OBGYN unit...which means that most likely I will get to see my first child be born tomorrow!! Now you want to talk about miracles....can't wait to see one of God's most miraculous adventures known to man! More to come...... :)