"The minimum requirement to make a baby is way too low"

Ah the title of this one comes from a wise man..my father. A truer statement has never been uttered. Well I guess besides a^2+b^2=c^2. Anyway, today's theme is..babiezz!

Wow okay, so I'm going to try as hard as I can to put into words what I saw today. When I got to the hospital I put on some sweet delivery room scrubs and opened the door to...BOOM a woman's vagina prepped and ready to give birth. I don't even know if I should say woman since she was only 17 but I guess giving birth pretty much makes you a woman. Anyway, she was laying there moaning in pain with one doctor between her legs and a nurse pushing the baby out from the top. At one point the nurse was practically sitting on her. It looked like the most painful experience of my life. A vacuum was used to suction the baby out (making its head really weird shaped) and they had to make a few incisions on the vagina to make the hole bigger. Ugh that was the worst part. They would bleed like crazy. I got really light headed and thought I was going to pass out and I was really mad at my body because I really wanted to watch but it was making me sick. Anyway, I manned up (or woman-ed up since I now have a new found respect for the strength of women) and drank some water and got right back to the front row of the nastiest "miracle" of life. It was really gross until BAM the baby popped out and then it was just amazing. They cut the umbilical cord and suctioned fluid out of its mouth and nose and went to clean it. Now for the placenta. It came out and made a huge mess and the doctor examined it to see if any of it was missing and still in the mother. He broke it apart for us to show what he was looking for. After the aftermath and various fluids finished coming out the doctor sewed up her vagina and we left. Wow. What a show. I am so lucky I got to see that in person.

Anyway so after the live birth we saw a couple of tubal ligations which is...getting your tubes tied. Literally. It starts with a small cut..about 6 inches, right underneath the female's belly button. The doctors then pull up the fallopian tubes one at a time, make a loop, and tie the loop really tight with some sort of twine looking stuff. They then cut the tube on both sides of the loop and put them back in. Once they do both sides they sew the skin back up in a few layers. Pretty simple procedure. It was really cool seeing a human ovary and fallopian tube in real life. I've seen many diagrams but it still blew my mind.

It's official. I have to go to med school. This stuff is way too incredible to pass up.

After these surgeries it was time for the c-section. We spent about half an hour watching them try to do the epidural. The lady was a bit on the larger side (which they didn't hesitate to tell her) so it took many pokes until they finally got the creepy long needle into the perfect spot on her back. After this she flipped onto her back and they got to work. They made a long cut on her abdoman and since she was heavier there was a lot of fat to cut through. We could see the womb and I thought they were going to cut it but then all of a sudden they just pulled a baby out. Not really sure how it worked. They spent about an hour sewing her uterus and stomach up in many layers. By the way, both of the babies were boys.

Later in the afternoon (after my nap of course) I drove Ashley around on a moto to run some errands. And it was a manual! Wow I just wanna throw out there I have become one badass biker chick. The group all just got back from the night market and I have a little story to tell. There was this blonde guy with these small green shorts who was walking around barefoot and Amy was like "I bet that guy is so cool" to which I agreed. Then as he was walking out of the night market I leaned over Amy and reached my arms out and said "goodbye my love, goodbye!" and she started doing it too...and THEN his girlfriend walked past us and was so angry. She started yelling in a foreign language. Anyway, after we laughed about that we went to this guy who does charcoal drawings. I've been thinking about buying one the whole time I've been here but they're really expensive. We were talking to him though and he was so awesome so both Ashley and I got one. Best purchase so far though (and that's going to you parents..you'll love it). Now for my last night in Chiang Rai!