OB rotation is awesome

i am a male also on ob rotation . my first day teach threw me into see a c-section. seeing this procedure gave me a new found respect for women

Men need to see this process...it is a miracle before your eyes. I felt the same being present when my two children were being born in front of me. A humbling experience...and most wonderful.

I start L&D this week. Pretty psyched.

I start OB tommorow, I'm a male and I'm scared.

I just finished the OB rotation and it wasn't as positive as I'd hoped. Out of the possible 12 to 15 postpartum couplets I could have cared for, I was only allowed to care for 5. The main reason was parents didn't want a male nurse in the room. In one case the P1 mom was at 9cm and didn't want a student nurse at all.

Labor was arguably worse as I was only able to witness one delivery. On the second labor rotation day I started in labor but was shot down and my instructor moved me back to postpartum.

The hospital served well-to-do clients in Scottsdale and didn't have a single male nurse in the Labor, Transition, and Postpartum departments. I assume it would be easier to get into the rooms if there were a a male nurse there I could shadow, but maybe it's a chicken and the egg thing. OB must be one of the last female nursing strongholds and may just hold out till the end of time.

I finished my OB rotations last week. Working in the OB unit was awesome, but I was disappointed in my rotations, because I never saw a birth. Not because I was refused (in fact, no patient ever stated that they didn't want me in their room), but it was just bad luck.

One day near the end, I was with a patient who was supposed to have a C. She had been on Pitocin for 24+ HOURS and was only at 3cm, and the fetus was having late decelerations the entire morning I was there. I got in at 6:30, scheduled to leave at 1:30. The doc came in and said, "Well, let's just let the pitocin run for the rest of the day and see what happens". Come on! 24 hours on pit and 3cm? Give me a break!

They ended up cutting her around 8pm. The nurses on the unit said I could come back to watch the C, but I didn't want to look like a stalker.