Obstetrics is Exhilarating!(PG)

So Far Anyway...

For our first obstetrics lab we got to practice assisting in calf deliveries from "phantom" cows. These are false cows with hip bones placed in a real configuration. Then we get dead calves from the abbatoir, place them in a plastic rice gunny sack in different positions and practice pulling them out.

There are different instruments to use, mainly ropes to tie on the legs and then pull.

Once I manipulated my first calf to the proper position inside the "womb", I attached the ropes and pulled. Even though it was just a dead calf, I felt this rush when it came out. It was amazing! I didn't know I would feel like that, it was totally unexpected.

It's sort of the same kind of kick I get when doing surgery as well.

Maybe slowly but surely I am finding which areas of vet I really could specialise in.