Having a Thoroughly Weekend kind of Saturday today, which has involved (so far) eating brunch at Marcy's Diner (this is America), mucking around on the Internet, shopping for groceries at Whole Foods, and taking a brisk run and lifting some weights at the gym. No plans to do homework as yet...
On Thursday last week, in Normal Labour and Birth class, we learned how to do intramuscular injections (using oranges and bacteriostatic saline to practice with at first, then progressing onto injecting each other's glutes). We practised counting the foetal heart rate accurately (our teacher uses a metronome to simulate the ticking beat of a tiny heart), and then used dolls and plastic life-size pelves to practise the cardinal movements made by a foetus on its journey through the pelvis and out into the world.
I wrote another Anatomy and Physiology exam on Friday, this time on the Respiratory and Digestive systems. It was uneventful, and when I was done writing, I took the chance to practise venipuncture on K. (Can you tell, how much of midwifery school is just about practising our skills on hapless classmates so that we don't fumble like idiots when we have to use them on actual pregnant clients...?)
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