And then some babies are born with a tooth... But what about being born with TWO MOLARS??

  The other week a two month old baby came to the clinic for immunizations. This child was apparently born with two molars, at least they sure were bigger than any baby teeth I've ever seen! The teeth were loose though, like they should be when they are close to coming out. We didn't pull them though. We left them alone and hope the baby doesn't choke on them when they do come out!

  On Sunday there was another baby born at the clinic. This was this lady's first baby. She was in labor a long time so I'm sure she was exhausted, but the labor and delivery didn't turn out at all like we hoped. She had come to the clinic on Saturday too but wasn't close enough to delivery to keep her there. We thought surely she must have had the baby Saturday night in the night some time until we got a call late on Sunday afternoon that they wanted to bring her in again. So we headed to the clinic, started an IV and some fluids and gave her some oxytocin. This was about 5:00 in the evening on Sunday. Progress was slow, but there was some progress so we decided we would keep her a while to see if she could have the baby here before we attempted to take her down to a hospital. That always takes some time to get arranged anyway since we have to determine if the ambulance is running well enough to make the trip or if someone will have to take Keith's machine. Lately Keith's machine has had more issues than the ambulance though... Then we have to find a driver. Hopefully by then the patient's family will have come up with enough money to cover the cost of the gas for the trip. We had decided to give her some medications though and hope for a successful delivery here. About 7:00 we were thinking the baby would be born soon. Well, the baby's head was born and then things started going backwards. There were several family members in the next room watching. We had sent them to the other room when the time got close so we would have room to work. The mom was exhausted and the baby was stuck. We were trying everything we could to help this baby be born. All at once one of the family members comes hurrying in the room with some " witch doctor oil" that was supposed to give the mother strength. Problem was, it was very strong and Githane got a big whiff of it and she started coughing... And coughing... Until she was gagging and throwing up. Another family member was doing some sort of motions over the lady's belly. Trevor was at the clinic too but had no idea we were even having problems until he heard the commotion. None of us knew there was any kind of nasty smelling oil in their possession either.  Meanwhile the baby was still stuck and turning more and more purple. Mirlene started getting after the lady who had brought in the oil and she wasn't easy on her. It wasn't long and she left the room and that was the last we saw of her
that evening. Trevor said she tried to come in the room again but he wouldn't let her. She still smelled very strongly of "oil". We got the mom to change positions but still the baby was stuck. Finally we decided there wasn't any more hope for the baby so we would attempt to cut the cord to see if that would help at all. I had been able to feel that the cord was around the baby's neck but couldn't loosen it enough to slip it over the baby's head. It seemed like something loosened up when the cord was cut.  Several minutes later the baby was born followed by a huge gush of nasty, green, very foul smelling liquid. The baby didn't have a heart beat any more at that time. But then there was this awful smelling fluid to compete with the oil smell in the room. Then the placenta wouldn't come. Once again I had to stick my hand WAY up in there and help it loosen. It also had a greenish tinge to it. There hadn't been other obvious signs of infection until all this stuff came out. We sent her home with antibiotics instructing her that if she got a fever she needed to return right away. Well, today she came back with a fever, a high heart rate and her blood pressure was on the low side of normal so we sent her down. I'm afraid she has a massive infection.
   Now for a better story, Monday morning at about 7:00 another baby was born. This one took a couple of gasps of breath then yelled at the top of her lungs. That was beautiful! I had to laugh at her, she was mad at the world!