Friday I was allowed to hold and feed some babies. I only fed one because the others that the nurse I followed was in charge of had to have their heart rates and oxygen saturations monitored really closely. When I was feeding the baby boy, he kept reaching his hand up trying to hold the bottle himself almost. One of the other babies that I help was only about 4 pounds, that's less than I was when I was born! There's another baby that was really fun to play with because she's older and bigger. That baby is really happy and laughs all the time, a little different from the 3 and 4 pounders. Feeding that babies is a little bit difficult because of how small they are. You have to monitor their intake to make sure their stomachs won't expand too much and little things like that. The babies are so small, so when you're burping them you don't think that you have to hit their backs very hard, but you really do. That was a little intimidating because I didn't want to hurt him, but I had to hit his back a lot harder than I thought.
Today was super boring, all I did was go to meetings with Dr. Martin, and only one of them was interesting. Hopefully tomorrow will be better, I think I am doing rounds in the morning at 9 then shadowing a nurse for the rest of the day. I was supposed to watch a delivery some time this week, but UH has some policy that students aren't allowed to. I wasn't that disappointed by that because a birth seems a bit graphic. That was about it for today.
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