Mentorship Update: 1/23/2013

A while ago while I was volunteering in the OB/GYN department, I asked the Lead L.V.N, Jeannette, about this really big machine that I saw earlier that day. I explained to her that this machine made a big whoosh sound and she told me that it was a Fetal Doppler Machine which listens to the baby's heart rate. Jeannette said that every whoosh I heard was the baby's heart rate and I thought this was pretty cool because I was actually hearing a baby's heart rate which I rarely hear. Also another interesting fact that I learned was that whenever a baby is born they play a lullaby for about 10 seconds and while at the hospital I heard it about 4 times in a single day which means that a lot of babies are born at Kaiser!