I was wondering if any of you would like to share funny delivery stories...For instance, I had a patient who was wonderfl and relaxed between contractions, but who would grab me by the shirt while having one and more often than not, spit ice down the front of my shirt. By the end of her labor it was a mix of laughter and trying to time it so I could get out of the way...Halfway througj (pre epidural days for our hospital, by the way), she screamed and grabbed me to ask if Lamaze was a guy. I didn't know and said so, which was a good thing because the next scream included the information that if he was a guy and was there that very moment, she would personally kill him! When I was a newer night delivery nurse, I was the subject of a hospital wide April Fools prank...We had cleared out delivery and went to the nursery to help them out and hang out until our next round of patients came in. (back in the days and nights of adequate staffing...sigh...) I was sitting in the nursery when the senior delivery nurse told me she was going to visit her friend, the charge nurse on pedi. Ok, I said...Not 3 minutes later , the RN at the post partum desk answered the phone and calmly (which raised a brief eyebrow), told me the ER had a patient who was delivering and I needed to go. Shocked I yelled that she should go and she (again, calmly) told me she would call my other delivery person and have her meet me in the ER....I decided to grab some gloves and a fetone and get going. After all, there would be an ER doc there, how bad could it be? I raced down three flights and way too late as I ran into the ER , noticed that it was much too calm..APRIL FOOLS they all screamed. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. They felt so badly for me that they offered to help me reciprocate...To this day, 13 years later, the delivery nurse who orchestrated the whole thing, has never put herself on April Fools......
