i love babies!

I got to "play" with the cutest babies today! I'm on newborn nursery this week and we don't really get to "play" but we get to "examine" them which is sort of the same thing but instead of making them warm and happy we made them cold and angry. Basically the same thing.

We've gotten to see a few deliveries which have been cool (especially to be on the other end of it from the OB perspective)...I do think it's weird how separated mother/baby health are as soon as they're born. They have completely different doctors taking care of them. I think it's another good reason to do something like family medicine because you DO get to take care of both Mom and Baby together. Also, they get really confused with each service rounding on them and things...

Also, today was my day to carry the "med student pager" (which hasn't gone off except for 2 times this entire week)...and while I was in our 1-hour lecture I got paged FIVE TIMES! I felt kind of awkward! Do I leave? Do I pretend it isn't me that's beeping? Do I run off to rub/aggravate the baby and cut the cord shorter? I decided just to sit there and listen to a guy who sounds a little bit like Dracula drone on and on about pediatric hypertension. Worst of all, we missed two NICU babies! Bummer! (More of a bummer for the babies I guess, but I was still sad that I didn't get to see them.)

I also realized today that I have a knack for getting babies to poop when I'm examining them. Don't know why, it doesn't happen to anybody else. I just look at them and they start grunting...and before I know it I've got a stinky...

Also, they have a "baby photographer" who was there today who put a little bow in the baby's hair and gave her little angel wings and took her picture - there were other really awesome pictures too...ahh babies!

Better stop cooing and get back to studying - finals are in 1 week!