The baby was never admitted to the hospital. He is as happy as can be! This pt was placed on our med/surg floor because the OB nurses at our hospital said she was "potentially infectious" since she had been in ICU. So if this is their way of thinking, does that mean the Moms who deliver in the waiting room, vehicle, or the ambulance get put on med/surg too? Our OB nurses are almost anal when it comes to stuff like this. Unless the Mom has delivered in their unit, they don't want anything to do with them. So med/surg gets all the hyperemesis gravida pts too. One time we had a pt who was pregnant with twins that was having abd pain (she wasn't in labor-they were not contractions) and they put her on med/surg. Now this lady was like 34 weeks or something like that. I argued until I was blue in the face with her doc that she should be in OB. His response was "her problem isn't OB related." No, but it sure could be in a matter of seconds.
(The doc is a family practice doc). Anyway this lady ends up having an acute appendicitis and is transferred to a larger facility with a NICU and ob/gyn doc. Guess where the larger facility placed her? In the OB department. Go figure.
There is a lot of tension at our facility between OB and med/surg. My hats are off to you nurses who do OB! Give me a MI or cardiac arrest anyday.
Thanks for the replies.
Where would you have placed this pt?
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...place mom on the ob unit with all the other moms so they both can receive the best care possible. Only a PP nurse can give the mom the postpartum care she needs.....not a med/surg nurse. 
