All us girls ready for a full on day!
Fabella Hospital
Today I stareted my rotaions at Fabella Maternity Hospital and learned so much about my relationship with God in the process. Although the day, circumstances and enviroment is crazily intense I believe God has opened an amazing door for us to minister to women (during lobor, delivery and post partum) and it has only confirmed in my heart that my faith is somthing that I need to be able to live out and express through my caring and love towards others. So in a hospital where;
the goverment gives them less money then a Filopino senitor makes in a year, pravicy and sanitation are hard to come by and woman are rushed though one after another is exactly where I want to be. Today I was working in admissions where the women come in and are checked and prepared for labor. A young 16 year old girl came in labor with her first baby. She was having strong contractions and was very scared. The doctors told her she had to be transported to a different hospital because she had asthma and they would not deliever her. This only made her more fearful. When she first came in I had gone to her bed side and was holding her and and brushing the hair out of her face. I was helping her through her contractions and encouraging her. She held my hand tighly and crying despertly kept looking into my eyes saying "please please help me." Her mom entered the room and she beged her mom to keep her from being transported the mom started to cry as well and at the moment I had to relese into her mothers care and leave the admittimg room as my eyes filled with tears and I cried. Most people who know me well know it does not take much to pull on my heart strings and I pray it stays that way. I pray my heart will always stay tender, compassionate for others and easily stirred by the will and voice of God.
*Fabella Hospital: Although Fabella does not routinely practice the same midwifery modle of care we follow I will be doing a two weeks of routation there. It gives us a great oppurtunity to observe C-sections, operations, NICU (neonatal intensive care unit), premature babies and a high volume of births. More then that is allows us to show the love of God and deminstate compassion to women in a place that can be very inpersonal due to the high valume of patiens. I have a high respect for the women who work at Fabeela as they do the best the can with the resourses they have. They place a very high vaule on being a mother baby friendly hospital (standard set by the WHO) and premoting breastfeeding. Today the postpatum ward had 96 mothers who all of couse have a baby but only two nurses and a midwife to staff the unit. This is not including other specialised postpartum wards.
No comments:
Post a Comment