Birthday babies

I'm loving today's obstetrics class! I witnessed not one, but 2 natural births in about an hour! Of course the mothers have to endure hours of uterine contraction hell (makes me rethink how many children I want in the future). My teacher said that there's a lot of women out there who prefer to deliver by c-section because of fear of the pain -- which is bad considering the fact that there are more complications to it than having to deliver naturally.

The just recent Russian presidential elections, Putin's party won. In other but crude terms, we foreigners will still survive. Just a thought: If the communist party won (which I doubt ever will), I will be the first one flying back home with or without my parent's consent.