I’m tired, but mostly my pelvis is tired, which is probably too much information.  You see, fellowship orientation started this week, and while the majority of it has been about meeting new people and becoming acquainted with the different hospitals I’ll be working at, 50% of my time has been about walking back and forth to various buildings all over the Longwood campus trying to obtain badges for each of the hospitals.  And I’ve discovered that walking, while all my ligaments are stretching and compound joints are becoming all undone due to this pregnancy, is tough on my pelvis.  Word to my pelvis: stop hurting, please! I still have another handful of days of badge acquisition and walking to do.

I also wish I had some profound thoughts to jot down, but I don’t.  Today, we had NRP review at this state-of-the-art simulation center using a wacky super-fancy neonate dummy.  (NRP is the Neonatal Resuscitation Program, which is a protocol for resuscitating newborn babies.) The neonatal dummy, NewB (pronounced “Newbie,” ha) was pretty cool - she cries, she breathes, she develops perioral cyanosis, she can have a heart beat and pulse; she has an umbilical stump that you can catheterize.  The only profound thing I learned from our mock code was that on the video replay, I talk too softly and I am really humongous at this stage in my pregnancy.  And I make funny hand gestures, apparently.  The video replay was quite informative.

Trading in my pedi stethoscope for my neo stethoscope…even tinier!