Last Sunday, a baby was delivered. Delivered by a very small PA student (who had gotten approximately 8 hours of sleep in the last 2-3 days) to a very large and umm.... unhygienic mother. That is all I will say about that. But imagine. Delivering. An. Unhygienic. Person. Vaginally.
Ahem.
The next morning, I could not have been more relieved to see the baby was cleaned up. And, best of all, he had quite bit of hair that one of the nurses had styled up into the most awesome
faux hawk ever. So. Incredibly. Cute.
Then, Dr. King let me circumcise Little Mr. Faux Hawk. This was really such an interesting procedure. There are several different methods for circumcising babies- you can use Plastibells, the Mogan, or Gomco- I got to do a Mogan. Really, to me the most interesting thing about circumcision is that in today's world, we can do them the day after a baby is born.
Why is this, you ask? Well, have you ever wondered why we give babies a shot of Vitamin K after birth? Circumcision first appeared in the BIble when God told Abraham to circumcise Isaac on the 8th day after his birth. Seems weird that he told him to wait, eh? Unless you know that babies, left to themselves, do not begin producing Vitamin K- a clotting factor necessary to clot blood- until they are about a week old. So, cutting into a baby before then without giving them Vitamin K will most likely lead to them bleeding to death. (However, if you invented babies you may have been aware of this small fact.) The End.
