1st day at Paediatrics
I wasn't looking forward towards this placement initially for 2 reasons:
1. I dread naughty kids and those who cry endlessly over practically EVERYTHING.
2. Down with a flu
But I'm feeling so so so much better today after sweating out and with the tender loving care given to me by my boy. He's really sweet by cooking dinner again for me last night and accompanying me to sleep just because I couldn't get to bed. Still having the dreadful cough though, and my throat is still slightly sore in the mornings.
Thinking abt it, it's such a waste that I gotta cancel the London trip this weekend, but oh well, might be a good thing too, since I have a lot of reading to do this weekend. If I manage to get quite a substantial amt done, then at least I can go to London and have some fun next weekend without having to worry tooooo much.
Anyway, back to the main topic.
It was my 1st day in Paediatrics. The children's unit looks quite nice in the hospital..at least it isn't old and dark.
I started off the day by visiting the Special Baby Care Unit (SCBU) and the first thing I saw was a 29 week baby (normal term babies are borned between 37-42 weeks)! Yeah, very premature..hehehe. She's TINY!!!!!!!!! She's probably around 20cm. The moment I saw her, it brightened my entire morning up, and I was so tempted to go cuddle her, but unfortunately, she's warmly kept in an incubator because preterm babies lose heat very easily, and that can cause serious problems. She was active, made those lovely baby noises, was feeding happily via a tube through her nose, and opened her cute eyes at certain times to take peeks. I was waving and smiling happily at her even though I know she can't see me or hear me calling her. Upon seeing her, I wanted so much to have a baby of my own.
I went to see 3 more babies in the same unit. All were term babies. 2 of them were twins! How cool is that?! And I simply love the name of one of the twins. Her name's Ffion. It's such a beautiful name. Hmm...shall I name my daughter that if I have one in future? Heee.... This time, I could touch them. They were so soundly asleep, and it feels wonderful stroking their face and touching them. I love the smell they got too...hahaha.
Went on a ward round in the main children's ward. Saw this little 9 month old with bronchiolitis. This little girl is very pretty to me. She's not growing very well, and the doctors are pretty concerned about this. However, she does look like a super happy and lively child to me. Her eyes are beautiful, and when she smiles at you, you simply go weak on your knees.
Then I saw more little kiddies, mostly with respiratory problems. For the 1st time, I listened to the lungs of a little kid too, using a paediatric stethoscope. It's amazing because I can actually hear heart sounds even when I'm listening to her chest from her back. Their heart rate is terribly fast too.
There was a boy who is extremely tall for his age. He looked like a 4-5 year old, when he's only 2. And his weight is way off his age and height. He's more than 200% overweight!
There's also another little girl with scoliosis and eczema, who was fostered out because the doctors suspected neglect when they 1st met her quite some time back. She was so much younger then. And now, she's growing up into a lovely child with very lovely parents. They adore her so much, and it's really nice to see such a happy family together in the ward.
Had some teaching with the SHOs too. Gosh, realised that there is so much that I have to learn for this placement. Eeekkksss... The team's quite alright. At least they do smile at me, even though they don't talk to me. But one SHO is pretty friendly, so I don't feel that bad. My placement coursemates are ok too, except for Teddy Bear. They talk among themselves, and yes, I do feel out of place, but at least it's better than how I felt about my last 2 placements whereby my coursemates either ignore me or just give me the look or if I'm really unlucky, having people being nasty to me for no apparent reason.
Haven't been to the post delivery wards yet. Shall try to go there soon to see the baby checks and enjoy seeing mums cuddling their newborns.
Argh...sudden urge to wanna be a mum...lol...but shit manz...darn painful leh...ouch....
Must tell my boy what I saw today. I wonder what's his reaction since he loves kiddies...heheheehe...(hahah..a few days ago..he was still fantasizing about being Daddy)
1. I dread naughty kids and those who cry endlessly over practically EVERYTHING.
2. Down with a flu
But I'm feeling so so so much better today after sweating out and with the tender loving care given to me by my boy. He's really sweet by cooking dinner again for me last night and accompanying me to sleep just because I couldn't get to bed. Still having the dreadful cough though, and my throat is still slightly sore in the mornings.
Thinking abt it, it's such a waste that I gotta cancel the London trip this weekend, but oh well, might be a good thing too, since I have a lot of reading to do this weekend. If I manage to get quite a substantial amt done, then at least I can go to London and have some fun next weekend without having to worry tooooo much.
Anyway, back to the main topic.
It was my 1st day in Paediatrics. The children's unit looks quite nice in the hospital..at least it isn't old and dark.
I started off the day by visiting the Special Baby Care Unit (SCBU) and the first thing I saw was a 29 week baby (normal term babies are borned between 37-42 weeks)! Yeah, very premature..hehehe. She's TINY!!!!!!!!! She's probably around 20cm. The moment I saw her, it brightened my entire morning up, and I was so tempted to go cuddle her, but unfortunately, she's warmly kept in an incubator because preterm babies lose heat very easily, and that can cause serious problems. She was active, made those lovely baby noises, was feeding happily via a tube through her nose, and opened her cute eyes at certain times to take peeks. I was waving and smiling happily at her even though I know she can't see me or hear me calling her. Upon seeing her, I wanted so much to have a baby of my own.
I went to see 3 more babies in the same unit. All were term babies. 2 of them were twins! How cool is that?! And I simply love the name of one of the twins. Her name's Ffion. It's such a beautiful name. Hmm...shall I name my daughter that if I have one in future? Heee.... This time, I could touch them. They were so soundly asleep, and it feels wonderful stroking their face and touching them. I love the smell they got too...hahaha.
Went on a ward round in the main children's ward. Saw this little 9 month old with bronchiolitis. This little girl is very pretty to me. She's not growing very well, and the doctors are pretty concerned about this. However, she does look like a super happy and lively child to me. Her eyes are beautiful, and when she smiles at you, you simply go weak on your knees.
Then I saw more little kiddies, mostly with respiratory problems. For the 1st time, I listened to the lungs of a little kid too, using a paediatric stethoscope. It's amazing because I can actually hear heart sounds even when I'm listening to her chest from her back. Their heart rate is terribly fast too.
There was a boy who is extremely tall for his age. He looked like a 4-5 year old, when he's only 2. And his weight is way off his age and height. He's more than 200% overweight!
There's also another little girl with scoliosis and eczema, who was fostered out because the doctors suspected neglect when they 1st met her quite some time back. She was so much younger then. And now, she's growing up into a lovely child with very lovely parents. They adore her so much, and it's really nice to see such a happy family together in the ward.
Had some teaching with the SHOs too. Gosh, realised that there is so much that I have to learn for this placement. Eeekkksss... The team's quite alright. At least they do smile at me, even though they don't talk to me. But one SHO is pretty friendly, so I don't feel that bad. My placement coursemates are ok too, except for Teddy Bear. They talk among themselves, and yes, I do feel out of place, but at least it's better than how I felt about my last 2 placements whereby my coursemates either ignore me or just give me the look or if I'm really unlucky, having people being nasty to me for no apparent reason.
Haven't been to the post delivery wards yet. Shall try to go there soon to see the baby checks and enjoy seeing mums cuddling their newborns.
Argh...sudden urge to wanna be a mum...lol...but shit manz...darn painful leh...ouch....
Must tell my boy what I saw today. I wonder what's his reaction since he loves kiddies...heheheehe...(hahah..a few days ago..he was still fantasizing about being Daddy)
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