Birth - a game of Roulette.

Between expectations
Author's blog

Sleep inertia
Tegaderm
Fentanyl
Betadine
Febrile seizure
Hematocrit
Fosphenytoin


Looking at the description of the patient she is working with, it is clear that the author is invested in the well being of the non-interactive baby in the NICU. There's a human side to her physician experiences. Her self is a go-between between the doctors and the patient and his/her family.
As a pediatrecian she is sometimes exposed to a patient pair mom-baby. She also gets to deal with teenagers, that phase rife with troubles we would want them to not get into. From these experiences she does question the sanity of guidelines of how a mom on meth can still breastfeed. She questions the effectiveness of her counseling on her teenage patients.
Recently I have become more aware of birth cases where a mom had to get a Csection soon as the baby had a case of emconium and how another mom had to be given Magnesium to reduce the contractions and keep the baby inside until the hour glass is done. So reading of those cases in the book with the reasoning around them made me appreciate the game of roulette called 'birth'.