it's in! (or, an ER moment)

First time I've successfully intubated a baby at the first try. It was a semi-emergency one too. The baby (an ex- 28 weeker weighing 1.5kg) was breathing at about 100/min and was rapidly tiring out, so needed to be put back on a ventilator. She was oxygenating ok though - until the suxamethonium went in. Her sats dropped to about 50% and her heart rate started to fall. The registrar took over bagging, and we turned the pressures gradually up. Though her chest was moving, the oxygen simply wasn't getting from her lungs to her bloodstream. "We'll just have to go for it," she said, handing me the laryngoscope. I'd let on that I was inexperienced, but had not mentioned I'd never actually been successful before (just in case they didn't let me do it). As it happened, the laryngoscope slid in easily over the (paralysed) baby's tongue. First the oesophagus, with the orogastric tube running down it, came into view. I moved the scope anteriorly, obtaining a perfect view of the vocal cords. I took the endotracheal (ET) tube (size 3.5) in my right hand (the laryngoscope is a left-handed intrument), asked the nurse to apply pressure to the cricoid, aimed for the chords, and there it was, in! Once the circuit was reconnected to the ET tube, the baby's chest moved beautifully. My first intubation. And nobody guessed it.