Nicole's Journey To The Emergency Room

While growing up, I remember watching a show with an emergency room setting, a doctor grabs paddles from a defibrillator, and yells, “Clear!” I also recall as a young kid watching a movie where the scene depicts a past battle, explosions were going off around friendly soldiers, but one unlucky soldier gets injured and yells, “Mediiiic!” I didn’t think that would be my calling, but I did like the idea of helping others. Then, years later, I am the one wearing a uniform, responding to a medical emergency, and in charge of a person’s life. Unfortunately, on one particular day, a tragic event occurred. A young boy died that I could not resuscitate. I never thought that day would ever come and I had wished it never did. Over and over again, I heard

Alexandra Tsiaras came up with a phenomenal way of describing conception to birth in his interview he did for Ted Talk. There were several things and little details that I truthfully did not know happened so fast during a woman’s pregnancy. It amazes me how people can go through with abortion after watching a video like Conception to Birth. Alexandra Tsiara’s visuals on conception to birth show a whole new outline of how fast a baby becomes a human, and that makes it that much more precious.

The quintuplets were born on May 28 1934 at approximately 4am. The mother of the quintuplets, Elzire, thought she was carrying twins because no one at the time thought it was possible to have five babies at once. Elzire gave birth to five identical girls, there names were (in order of birth) Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie and Marie. The quintuplets were born two months premature, weighing approximately 13 lbs and 6 oz. All the girls were born twenty minutes apart except for Marie, she was born two minutes after Emilie. The doctor that gave birth to the quintuplets was Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe. He had a theory that all the girls were made from a single egg cell. Annette and Yvonne shared the same embryonic sac, Emilie and Marie shared, and it is believed that Cecile shared the same embryonic sac with a miscarried sixth fetus. Each girl became closest to the sister who they shared the same sac with, and Cecile tended to be alone most of the time.

I could sit here and share with the board a sad story of a young child whose single mother worked the graveyard shift every day of the week, just to provide for her four young children. I could also share how despondent that I felt growing up, and how my mother shopped for my clothes from thrift shops, how she would get excited when she found something named brand for us. But I won't do that, instead I would like to introduce you to a delightfully chaotic little girl named Audriana- Faith. On August 15, 2012 Audriana-Faith was born at 1:41 am, weighing in 6 pounds and 12 ounces. The day my daughter was born was a day embedded in my memory, but it was not the best day of my life. I know that's what you're supposed to say, but becoming a mother

I was fascinated to understand how human being was growing inside me. However, I also know that this isn't the case for everyone. Some women have tough pregnancies and don't enjoy the ride. They are on countdown for baby to enter the world. Medical complications and body confidence can have a real effect on women through pregnancy, it does effect us all differently.

Amber McCullough from Minnesota travelled to Colorado to deliver her twins. She delivered Hannah and Olivia through cesarean section but sadly after 5 hour separation procedure, Doctors were unable to save Olivia.

In the late winter of 1999, Jeff and Lori Desrosiers found out that they would be adding yet another girl to their family. They had already been blessed with three beautiful daughters and, to Jeff’s horror, he would still be the only man in the house. Later in the year, on October 3rd, Lori delivered that fourth daughter, and that fourth daughter was me. I was born into this crazy Desrosiers family and got to be apart of all of their lives.

After watching The Business of Being Born I was very shocked at the statistics stated throughout the link. One of the most shocking things from the link is that the United States is one of the less developed countries when it comes to childbirth and the health of the child. In Europe and Japan, midwives attend over seventy percent of the births, while in the United States, less than eight percent attend midwives. Maternity care in the United States is in crisis and midwives are trying to change the birthing process. Women in the United States are convinced that the vast majority of them do not know how to birth a child. One term that I thought was interesting was the term designer birth, which makes me directly think of women in New York City.

“Congrats, you are pregnant with twin girls!” the excited medical tech yelled, with her smile warming up the room. Can you imagine the mixed feelings that came over my parents as they went in to find the sex of their one child, to only find out there were two. From that moment on, inside my mother’s womb, I knew I would have to fight hard to be an individual. All my life, everyone always questioned, “Which one are you again?” or “There’s two of you, that’s so cool”. It seemed like a slow carousel that keeps going around and around and never stops. We were both intelligent and always did everything together but that didn’t mean we were the same. When you have a twin, everyone thinks you guys are one person and for the last 17 years, I still

Three months later upon returning home Rae discovered she was in fact pregnant with twins. Rae was grateful

from a rape because they do not want to be reminiscing about how the baby was brought into the

The final birth at the end of the video clip was memorable for me because it was reminiscent of the birth of my two daughters. It was an emotional clip to watch and what made it so fascinating was the fact that the whole process was tracked with vivid visuals from the gametes to the blastocyst to the zygote to the fetus to finally the new born baby. I was amazed at the images of the millions of sperm that was produced and the various obstacles they had to go through just to get to the ovum. The first obstacle was in the sheer number of them competing to reach first, that also not guaranteeing any success. The obstructive

“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1950; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974” (3).

Everything became surreal. Within a few long, excruciating hours my cousin Maya and her husband Jordan’s life together would drastically change. After anxiously waiting for the updates and details about her delivery, at precisely 9:24 PM the most precious individual entered my heart, immediately giving me one of the greatest reminders I would ever receive.

Flashing red and blue lights accompanied by an alarming siren in the distance is signaled when the double doors of the emergency room burst open. Pushed by several nurses, doctors, and other medical staff, a lone hospital stretcher with a bloody, wounded patient flies through the medical center towards the doors to the operating room. This image is what generally comes to mind when you think about an emergency room. Many people believe that the hospital’s emergency room is a dark and scary place. While this is true, the common misconception is that the emergency room is a place clear of humor, when in reality humor is present, even necessary, for many reasons. Many television shows, like the show ER, are based in the setting of the