Day 3/ 2nd June 2022

 So this was probably the night I'll remember for the rest of my life. It was something very trivial for most of my friends but for some reason, it meant a lot to me. I was able to witness something that will probably be seen only in textbooks these days. I didn't assist in this delivery. I didn't do anything out of the ordinary. I was just watching from the sides and was occasionally giving some injections. That's it. So let me take a quick stroll down memory lane for this day.

It was around 2:30 am at night. Me, Sam and our most favourite pg of all time, Amru ma'am (name changed), were telling each other that after such a hectic night the previous day, the labour room was finally quiet and had this peaceful feel perfect for 2 hrs of sleep. Just 5 mins after we were discussing this, the nurse came running into the labour room. "Doctors ODAANEE VAANGA PATIENT KU BLEEDING PV." she said. 

So, most of the time when patients complained of bleeding PV, it used to be only 'show', which is blood stained mucous discharge PV. But me and Sam were new there so we didn't think of what it could be. We just rushed to the patient's bed and Amru ma'am followed. Little did we know that this patient, Malar, had full on bleeding PV at 28 weeks gestation. And the interesting part was it was a twin gestation! I immediately went to the DMO's room and kept knocking sooo hard that the DMO ma'am Giri (name changed), came out almost immediately half-asleep. She was very calm and composed while me and Sam were freaking out as to what's gonna happen to the babies/foetuses or whatever. Antepartum Hemorrhage! The first time we saw it live. Giri ma'am immediately took Malar to the ultrasound room and took a scan there to check what was going on inside. And then she immediately asked us to shift the patient to the labour room from the ward. We did that. The whole way was filled with blood coming out of Malar.

 I was really scared because I didn't want to see a dead baby coming out of her after seeing soo much blood. But then i realized that the words amazing, calm and composed defined my DMO Giri ma'am. That night, I witnessed the infamous Marshall-Burns technique of Breech delivery and Internal Podalic Version performed on Malar. To give more context, Breech deliveries don't happen as normal deliveries anymore. All Breech presentations are taken up for LSCS as soon as they reach term gestation. But since Malar was having APH and started getting contractions, Giri ma'am had no choice despite her getting instructions from her senior to go for Emergency LSCS. I was really happy on seeing something that can be found only in textbooks these days. Both the babies were successfully delivered by the same technique, one boy and one girl, and both were taken to the NICU.

I was obsessing over seeing that delivery after some time to the pg ma'am and she said that it was the first time she was seeing a Breech delivery done normally and not through Caesarean mode. The Senior Nurse who was on duty that night had a 15 year service record and she herself said that she had never seen even one Breech delivery done this way!!! It was a really stressful moment for everyone in that room except for Giri ma'am, who was as cool as a cucumber. From that day on, I had officially become a fan of hers!