Then people started to actually pull down her pants. I just said, “Get some scissors and cut them off so I can get this baby out!”
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ACEP News: Vol 31 – No 06 – June 2012So we cut away the pants, and there was this perfect little person there. It was like unwrapping a present.
I suctioned her out and she cried loud and strong. I let Dad cut the cord as Mom reached out to touch her. Awwww… And then the NICU and L&D nurses swept them away to greener pastures and nicer rooms.
Once they were gone, we all let out a sigh of relief.
Then they wheeled a passed-out drunk guy into the room across from my desk. I took a deep breath, trying to get my brain around the next problem.
But in the back of my mind lingered the little baby who couldn’t wait to be born.
Dr. Bundy is an attending physician at ERMed, LLC, in Montgomery, Ala., and a former photojournalist, who not only sings in the car, but talks to herself, is addicted to diet drinks and shoes, and thinks emergency medicine is the greatest specialty.
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