Checking each other's HR

Yes, we are crazy. Very obvious that this time we do not have patients in labor. My friend and I have fun doing crazy things in the birth room like checking each others heart rate. We are very serious and professional though when we have patients. But sometimes we do things that makes the laboring patients laugh. I think it is also helpful to do it sometimes. We know when to throw jokes and when not to. As it is said that laughter is the best medicine.

Facial expression

A dramatization of what the facial expression of a laboring woman who is told that her cervix still 1 cm open. Only 1 cm dilated in 4 hours of labor. Usually, when the pregnant woman who is not in labor yet her cervix is closed. Cervix is the part of the uterus that is serves as the first passage way of the baby to come out. As the labor progresses it will dilate more and more to 10 cms before the patient will push her baby out.