#precipitous labor

Precipitous labor and baby beat me there. Minor postpartum hemorrhage, but we got it under control.

I headed home around 6am and didn't go in for office training today since I was practically up all night. I'm still on call until tomorrow at 9pm so they just want me rested so I can come in for any more births.

I am so exhausted. There have been so many births this week. I worked an 11 hour day in the office on Wednesday. Then at 10:30 that night I got called in for a birth. Got home at like 4 am. Worked a half day in office on Thursday starting at 1pm. Then Friday at 1:30 am I got called in for a birth. Got home at 7. Got a shower and ate then had to be back at work at 8:30 for our monthly staff meeting. I stayed for an on call postpartum visit as well. Got home at 2pm.

They gave me that afternoon and yesterday until 9pm off so that I could sleep. There was a birth while I was off. Thankfully there wasn't a birth last night. I am like half way back to being caught up with my messed up sleep schedule.

I need to attend one more birth before that part of training for my job is done. I finished training for the MA office position that I'll cover when people need time off and this week I'll train for the RN office position.

The story of my second birth

From the moment last April when I shocked the crap out of myself with a positive pregnancy test, everything about my second pregnancy was different from my first.  This fact was especially apparent during the last few weeks of the pregnancy.  I had given birth to my first at 37 weeks, 6 days and expected to have #2 similarly early.  By the time I hit 37 weeks, I finished all my major tasks for…