About Me

Ghana
I decided to create this blog to keep you guys in the loop about my time spent in Ghana. I will be in this West African country from the end of January until mid March for one of my final nursing practicums. I am really looking forward to the challenges and obstacles I will encounter, the people I will cross paths with, and the valuable lessons I will learn.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Emergent Birth Training!

Today our whole group met with some staff from the Maternity ward at KGH. They walked us through how to deliver babies so that if the need arises (as it did for a student last year!) we will know what we need to do. Pretty crazy stuff. We also packed our huge medical supply bags to take with us.

I can't believe we will be leaving in exactly a week. So exciting! Here's some pics of the delivery I did with a mechanical mom who actually births the baby. Unreal..


And so it begins!


It's crowning!


There's the head and anterior shoulder!


Out she comes!


And there she is, folks!