Labor and delivery is very different in the small community hospital in Mexico. There is a large shared labor room with one tocodynamometer and busy interns taking vitals every so often. Sometimes they use the Pinard horn to detect and count the fetal heart beat. There is minimal privacy as curtains are more for decoration […]
Special Delivery
These past two weeks have been “Women’s Health Weeks.” We have been learning about illnesses that affect mostly women. Along with illness, we were taught some physiology pertaining to females only. The most exciting thing we talked about was delivering a baby, something only a woman can do. It is easy to get bogged down […]
