Timing myself
Categories : Obstetrics |
Ran an impromptu experiment at 1:20am today to see what the minimum amount of time a call-out to the hospital would take, which worked out to roughly 40 minutes, for a perfectly routine normal birth. Here’s how it broke down :
- 10 minutes - get out of bed and get dressed (this was a bit slow though, I could have gone faster)
- 10 minutes - drive to hospital
- 10 minutes - go up to labour ward, check baby (who was born 5 mins before I arrived) and mum, do paper-work, go back down to car
- 10 minutes - driving home
So that wasn’t too bad - I was back tucked in my bed by just after 2am for another few hours sleep. Of course that was the bare minimum because the birth went so well and so quickly and the baby was healthy and there was no suturing required or anything.
So my total for the weekend was 3 babies born, which is a good improvement on the zero I had last time. And now I’ve got no more weekend on-calls for over a month.
