Get out of my room!

I'm not happy when the 1st year emergency resident, who is just supposed to be shadowing and watching the OB resident on L&D, decides to take it upon himself to scare the living crap out of my laboring mother with talk of her baby dying if she doesn't have a c-section.

Get out of her room ER resident!

I had to then help calm her down, and reassure her that her baby was doing fine on the fetal monitor, and that she was progressing normally with her labor, and that yes, she can have a vaginal birth.

Seriously - to that ER resident who doesn't know jack about labor and birth - you are hereby banished from the laboring woman's room!

I had a heart to heart talk with the OB resident, and apparently the ER resident was also rubbing her the wrong way that day.

In the end, she had a nice, rapid vaginal birth with no complications. She refused to allow the ER resident to come in her room for the birth, and not surprisingly, he wasn't offended that she didn't want him in there.