my last delivery! #30

he was a cutie .. i thought id document the last one with lots of pics

Delivery #30

It was my last week and Jen ad gotten dehydrated the day before and had to go back home. Bek came to take her place so I wasn’t stranded there on my own. A woman came in a 5:30am and so the nurses came knocking on our door to wake and notify us there was a delivery, but I was incoherent and in a deep sleep. Bek went to check on her and saw she was only 5cm. so went back to sleep. We checked her again in the morning and saw she was only 7cm. she didn’t progress all morning, so she was given misoprostol to speed up the delivery at 10:30am. At 2pm she was at 9cm but cervix was still felt on the left side of the baby’s head so we waited. At 2:40p we put her in the squatting position to help the baby’s head to descend which helped a lot. Once she was crowning we layed her on her back and the baby came out quick… it was a baby boy!! He had a long body (50cm.) and was aaaaadorable. He had a perfect Apgar score 10/10 and I was so happy that the baby was good and healthy and the mother didn’t tear.

I got the name Demetrius for him which means productive one and prayed over him that the Lord will bless him in all that he does. Deuteronomy 16:15 ‘For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.’
I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect last delivery. It was a beautiful way to end my experience of delivering babies on the Birth Attendant School.