I've officially completed three weeks of OBGYN. This week I made progress in terms of I now know how to do pelvics and pap smears, albeit not great. I've been in the OR a couple of times for couple of procedures, and delivered a few more babies. Overall, things are going well.

Last night though was probably the lowlight of my clinical experience. I was on call. We had a woman come in who had been seen a week before as an inpatient for oligohydraminos (low amniotic fluid). She was treated and discharged. Two days ago, she stopped feeling the baby move, and thus went to see her midwife, who was unable to find a heartbeat. She was admitted to L&D again, and determined that the baby was stillborn at 26 weeks. We then had to induce this poor woman to deliver the fetus and placenta. I'll spare the details, but it's not a pleasant experience overall, it can take hours and hours for the delivery to occur, and there's the emotional distress the mother goes through throughout the process. After the fetus has delivered, we have to examine it to figure out why the death occurred. It's a very sad process, as you can imagine.