Last night for a while...I hope!
Ok , 6 days a week at the hospital is a lot. I just got home from another 5+ hrs extra this week. It's been insane! I think they had 13 babies on dayshift today, then another 5 after 7. When I left we had the board cleaned up nicely, one ante and one patient who was deciding what she was going to do. I did a delivery about 2100, moved her over and was out of there. Ah...I told them "no" for the next few nights. I just can't make myself go back for 7 in a row. I think things will calm down over the weekend, at least I sure hope so! So the last couple days there has been a 19wk PROM staying on our unit. Her history is complicated, and it's made me do a lot of thinking. She came in ruptured, and they did some antibiotics, etc, and after thinking about it and considering her history, she decided that really at 19 wks , she didn't want to sit in the hospital for the next 5 or 6 weeks waiting until viable age, and so wanted to go ahead and induce delivery which wou...