Racheal Rivera

Racheal Rivera, LVN I've spent 12 years in the Health Care setting and I have served many different roles, in the U.S. and in Japan . My first experience with Labor & Delivery happened quite by surprise: I was working as an EMT in Japan and we happened to get a call for a woman who had gone into labor earlier that day. She had only been in very early labor (1 cm), so the hospital sent her home to labor comfortably until she was a bit closer to delivery. She did go home and after enduring two hours of contractions, she decided to get into a warm bath. She ended up falling asleep and, during that time, her water broke in the tub! She didn't know what had happened, but she woke up to the seriously intense contractions. Her husband was concerned and called 911. When we arrived, we helped her out of the tub and into the living room. She was at 10 cm!

Racheal Rivera, Birth Assistant, LVN I've spent 12 years in the Health Care setting and I have served many different roles, in the U.S. and in Japan . My first experience with Labor & Delivery happened quite by surprise: I was working as an EMT in Japan and we happened to get a call for a woman who had gone into labor earlier that day.She had only been in very early labor (1 cm), so the hospital sent her home to labor comfortably until she was a bit closer to delivery.She did go home and after enduring two hours of contractions, she decided to get into a warm bath.She ended up falling asleep and, during that time, her water broke in the tub!She didn't know what had happened, but she woke up to the seriously intense contractions.Her husband was concerned and called 911.When we arrived, we helped her out of the tub and into the living room.She was at 10 cm!