Obs

As much as I like Obs Anesthesia, I find it really stressful too.
When the women want/need their epidurals, they are often in so much pain they can barely stand it and are almost out of control, losing their minds.
When we take women for sections, it is either urgent (and they have probably been labouring for awhile already and are exhausted), emergent (and everyone is shitting themselves, and I might even have to put her to sleep), or elective ( and last time her experience was completely different, she is totally freaking worried, and wants to go to sleep).
And then they puke. They puke in labour, they puke during the sections, they can even puke as I put them off to sleep. And they wonder why we don't let them eat?! I hate that. I find that stressful. I don't think I would like to be paralyzed from the breast-bone down and not be able to sit up, and puke properly. And yet, I tell all these women that it is "normal and OK if this happens, and very common). Barf. Literally.