Cool. Great birthday gift indeed!

@kk muneer: yes.. it was an unbelievable experience.. :)

Sorry to be a spoil sport but you were on an obstetrics attachment during a time period that included you birthday. If that time period was anything like my student days it lasted about 8 week or 56 days. Assuming you were around and available for deliveries on any of those days the chances of being able to deliver a baby on your birthday was about 1 in 56. Small oods I grant you but even I would by a lottery ticket if it had a 1 in 56 chance of winning the jackpot! Nonetheless I concur that your first delivery as a student is a wonderful experience - for mine it was topped by the baby being given the same first name as myself.

That's a good exposure to Obs and Gynae Madhu. I think in the UK it's a bit of an under-valued subject. Beyond what you do as an undergraduate there is no real compulsion to do any obstetrics and gyanecology unless that's the specialty you are going into when you graduate. It's obviously very useful for general practice and I think the vast majority of GPs will have some formal post-grad Obs and Gynae training under their belts (I myself did a year of post-graduate training in Obs and Gynae as I knew I wanted to work in remote areas). But few other specialties do it or encourage it which is very sad because of course every pregnant woman can develop any medical, surgical or psychiatric problem as much as the rest of the population so it's not as if folks in other specialties will never have to deal with a pregnant woman.

Great post really enjoyed reading it