I seem to have a babies theme
When I was at school I worked Saturdays with a local vet. He let me get really hands on with stuff, and I saw and did some really cool things. But you also see some horrible stuff.
On a farm visit to a cow calving, the calf had already died inside the cow. The way it was taken out, was by the vet putting steel rope into the cow, and wrapping it round the calf. The 2 ends of the rope would then hang out the cows vagina. Then the vet would use the rope to saw throught the calf. He would do this in order to behead the calf, and then cut each of the limbs off. To see a cow give birth to different bits of a calf was horrible. Cow survived though.
I also was there for a lambing. The Lamb was dead, and the mother was getting there. The vet was pulling hard on the lamb, and it was about halfway out. But as he pulled, the body of this tiny white lamb ripped apart, and his guts, liver, stomach and all came spilling out. The vet then had to try and clean out the sheeps womb. The sheep didn't survive.
The third thing is a cow after retaining the afterbirth. As soon as we walked into the shed the smell hit me. I have a strong stomach, so slightly gagged, but kept my cool. Cue this old irish farmer laughing at the young girl almost being sick. But anyway, there was a small bit of rotting placenta hanging out of the cow. But as soon as the vet started to clean out the rest the smell intensified. It was suffocating. Farmer stopped his jokes about the wee girl then! As the vet washed it out, black sludge, and chunks of rotten, well, meat came pouring out of the cow. It was vile. The thought of that all fermenting inside her was awful, the poor thing. Her vagina had to be flushed until the water ran clear. It took a long time.
But, after all of this the thing that horrified me most was a human mother SUCKING THE SNOT out of a babies nose.
*Vomit*
(Beauty School Drop-out, Fri 22 Jun 2007, 14:04, Reply)