September

A little bit of September...

Textbooks, textbooks, and....textbooks

When we get bored of assignment and textbooks...

Semester exam....we weren't nervous...oh no, not in the least. *ahem*

Trying to sleep on a slow night shift

Lots and lots of paperwork and charting

Teaching Dads how to give a baby bath...hehe.

My continuity, Dayday (also known as Norie). Delivering her baby was definitely a highlight of September. Dayday was born with extremity deformities, so she has no hands and only one leg, but she is one of the sweetest women I have ever met. And her baby was a perfectly beautiful baby girl.

You can imagine how thrilled she and her husband were! Such an answer to prayer.

She let me name her baby--Rachel Noelle. Rachel: after an awesome sister of mine =). And Noelle: a mix of Dayday's real name, Norie and her husband's name, Emmanuelle.

Going home after a Dayday's birth--2:30am

Dayday--3 days postpartum

Another continuity this month, Gina, had a lot of complications and had to deliver in the hospital. Everything went well though, and I was able to visit her a few times in the hospital. She and her baby are home and doing well now.

5:30am cross channel swim with people from church and girls from Mercy Maternity.

fun fun.....

Until one of the girls was stung by a jellyfish :( Super painful...but she's ok now. And it's true, vinegar works wonders.

Celebrating a birthday :)

On shift, double baby duty

Ginhawa Lang

September has been a whirlwind of assignment, studying, semester exam, new class of girls, birth room shifts, prenatals, continuities, etc. The cat aptly pictures how I feel. :) I often find myself thinking "Ginhawa lang--Just breath. Just get through the next step". Today is the first day in awhile that I've been able to sit back. And, although I love busyness, I find that I don't always take the time to "Be still and know that [He is] God." To remember that He is the one giving me the breath that is carrying me through each day.

Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: 'I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind...'

Isaiah 42:5-7

SO.....ginhawa lang.

Bearly Escaped

If you ever happen to run across a bear, you can either run away or climb a tree or roll up in a ball and pretend that you're dead (like any good survival book would tell you to do) or... you could chase IT up a tree. At least that's what my three younger siblings, Isaac, Benjamin, and Hannah did. This bear got lucky... If it had been next week...
It would have been bear hunting season...

And he'd have been dinner.