Monday, June 20, 2011

Baarish and babies....

Come June and there are two new phenomenas in my 'happening' life here.....
The monsoons...
While bringing much much MUCH needed respite from the blazing summer sun, it also means a whole new spectrum of water borne diseases and increase in general morbidity balanced out by the number of people who can't get here or get here late because of the rain. As a girl, it aggravates an already existing problem... CREEPY CRAWLIES!!!  Honestly i really don't mind the increase in snakes and scorpions, all it means is that i carry a torch wherever i go and look down at all times. But what takes the life out of me are the other creatures... insects... esp the flying ones and there's just no escaping them! Especially if you're like me and have a morbid fear that they'll fly right into you or fall on you while sleeping or even worse crawl into one or all of your orifices. Thankfully I have the first floor so i am relatively safer from all those inhabitants of the surface.

The babies....
A much more pleasanter event is the sudden rise of deliveries this season prompting the new coined hospital phrase of 'bacchhon ki barsaat' (monsson of children). This is because marriages are considered auspicious if conducted before or after diwali which happens in october thus all the fruits of their labo(u)r being seen at around this time. However, in this age of technology we still remain untouched. All monitoring here is done manually as opposed to fetal monitors elsewhere. Usually obstetrics, in small mission hospital like ours, are nurse led and the doctor only turns up for extracting the baby. Woe be to you if the staff are either not competent enough or there just aren't enough, like here, on both counts. As a result, the doctor, read me, sits by the side of the mother all though labour monitoring her parameters and her baby's by herself which on an average is 8 hours for a primi and 4 for a multi. Even worse if we plan to intervene and hasten the process, that is like my boss puts it, 'sitting on a bomb'. For here there is no waiting. The concept being, 'If some fetal heart rate abnormality is picked up in our intermittent monitoring, we have most likely missed much more'. The solution being, 'When in doubt, OPERATE'!! 
And so i wait..... 

PS - If you're reading this, please comment. So i know you're getting it!!! Thanks!!! :*

4 comments:

  1. :)... Primigravida is first time pregnant and multigravida is more than first time....

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  2. Read, and understood... I don't know how you do it :-/ Oh, and a mosquito net might help? With the insects while sleeping, that is :-P

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  3. Ha ha... Your brother said the same thing!!! :)
    But I'm slightly claustrophobic with nets... :P

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