OB rotation is awesome

onduty23 · Jan 24, 2006

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

antihippie · Jan 24, 2006

After watching my wife give birth I definetly knew she had a special kind of strength. My only concern/embarassment is that I know I am going to cry like a little girl every time I see a delivery. I am so grateful that people would let me share that special time with them.

Thunderwolf, MSN, RN · Jan 24, 2006

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.

antihippie · Feb 4, 2006

Got to attend my first NSVD yesterday and it was one of the coolest things ever. When my wife gave birth I was much to concerned with her to pay much attention to what the doc was doing, but this time I watched everything and it amazing.

agent · Mar 4, 2006

I start L&D this week. Pretty psyched.

hotdog19d · Mar 26, 2006

I start OB tommorow, I'm a male and I'm scared. :uhoh3:

Kabin · Apr 4, 2006

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.

Murse901, MSN, RN · Apr 6, 2006

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. :)

antihippie · Apr 6, 2006

My rotation was great, I saw 5 NSVDs, 1 C-section and a tubal ligation. I was also lucky enough that every birth I attended was on a Wednesday so I was able to do the post-partum care on Thursday for the family from the day before.

My best was a young couple I caught in triage that was the "textbook" birth, married Para 1 Gravida0, no STDs and no complications. I stayed until 1830 for the birth as these would be my first from admission to discharge and they asked me if I would. The next week they thanked me and the rest of the staff in the local paper and sent a thank you letter to the hospital and the school for "letting" me be there for them.

Makes me feel better about my decision to become a nurse.

Roy Fokker, BSN, RN · Apr 7, 2006

Y'all shoulda seen the thread we had about males in OB in the General nursing Forum... :eek:

I did one day in OB and while it was an awesome experience, I'm not really sure it's my cup of tea. Not that it freaked me out or anything, I just wasn't stimulated as much (as say ER or just the general Pediatrics floor :))

Murse901, MSN, RN · Apr 7, 2006

My best was a young couple I caught in triage that was the "textbook" birth, married Para 1 Gravida0, no STDs and no complications. I stayed until 1830 for the birth as these would be my first from admission to discharge and they asked me if I would. The next week they thanked me and the rest of the staff in the local paper and sent a thank you letter to the hospital and the school for "letting" me be there for them.

A Para 1, Gravida 0 would hardly be called "textbook". That would definitely be an interesting experience.