Hospital Volunteering

Haha, that title should grab your attention.

I've been volunteering at Methodist Mansfield Hospital. I LOVE IT!! 

I was really hoping to gain two things out of it. Of course, the volunteer hours. I mean, it's gotta look pretty good to put 100 hours of hospital volunteering on a nursing application. And second, I wanted to get a feel of what I would like to do in the future, what was actually the best for me, and to just be in the atmosphere there. I knew that I wanted to be on the women's floor.
In the beginning I was putting together IV packets and stocking linens closets. Boring. There are the nurses that really just ignore me.. They don't thank me for helping them or talk to me. (It frustrates me) But I've gotten over it. I'm just another volunteer and all they probably think is I want to file papers. But I want to learn!! So after spending some time on the Labor and Delivery wing, and surprisingly not seeing anything that "cool", I finally ventured over to the Baby Nursery. AHHHHHH so wonderful!! I realized that I knew a nurse working in the nursery from church. She was so excited to see me there wanting to learn! So now they start letting me do things besides file papers! (And I get thank you's ALL the time) It really is great. I'm getting to hang out with these lovely nurses everyday and hold sweet, precious newborns!! I'm learning the way they do a lot of things. I've got a baby chart like memorized now. Keeping times of when they're fed. Burping them. So sweet. I get to make the cribs up. I fill the drawers with the cute, little diapers, and outfits. cloths, wipes, blankets. And when a baby is ready to leave the nursery, it goes in the crib down to his mommy's room. sooooo sweet! I like working in the nursery and seeing all the families standing outside, watching through the windows. It's adorable.
So one day I'm asked if I would like to see a tiny procedure done. Of course I do! There's 3 babies in the nursery and the pediatrician has just come in. So I'm all excited and then I realize that the pediatrician is circumcising the two male babies in the nursery. It was... interesting. And really quick. That's all I'll say about that. But it's possible that I could see a delivery one day! It would have to be planned for me to be in there. But still possible. The closes I've gotten to a C-section was waiting with the father outside of the OR. It was so precious. It was his first child and he was super excited. He couldn't sit still and he had the camera all ready to go back to see his wife and baby. He told me all about the baby's room. It just made me happy haha. I really enjoy it!

I read the "Hunger Games" trilogy. Even though I thought the 3rd book kind of dragged on a bit, I loved them all sooooooooooooooooo much! Geez, I am the biggest nerd. I couldn't stop reading them. I'm excited for the movie, but they better not screw it up!