A Night in Labor & Delivery: What the Public Never Sees

A night in Labor & Delivery through the eyes of an obstetrician

A Quiet Beginning

Most people imagine hospitals at night as quiet places, lights dimmed, corridors hushed. Labor and Delivery is rarely like that. Even when the unit seems calm, it’s an uneasy calm—because we know it can change in an instant. As a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and as a specialist in Maternal–Fetal Medicine, I’ve spent countless…