10 pregnant RN's...

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...walk into a bar. :bugeyes: Sounds like the start of a good joke, but I'm not kidding!! In our 51-bed NICU, there are ten pregnant ladies, all due between June 1 and January 1. We have a bunch of fertile myrtles, some young new brides, others old hands at this with two or three kids already, but all healthy and happy so far. The ultrasound pics are flying all over!

I just think it must be scary as anything to be pregnant and work day after day in the NICU. You must wake up every morning and just thank God the kid's still in there, heart beating (on all four chambers), internal organs INSIDE the body, a brain in the head (but not too much of a head), only 20 fingers and toes and they're all on the correct appendages, and oh yeah, that pesky cervix is still closed!

Well, more power to them, and we oldies who are closed for business can count on some great OT between now and Christmas!! YAY!!

If you have similar stories, let's hear them, and I'll keep ya' posted on our progress. :typing

Specializes in Day program consultant DD/MR.

5 yrs ago while I was working in ER admitting area. Every one seemed to get pregnant at the same time. I think there were about 20 of us from different deparments.

"I just think it must be scary as anything to be pregnant and work day after day in the NICU."

I had my children while I worked Mother Baby. That was bad enough. We deliver around 7,000 babies per year, and so there were plenty of horror stories to be heard and sometimes experienced. I now work NICU, and one of our nurses had her baby at 24 weeks. Super Scary! Thank God that little Reagan has done remarkably well. No bleeds, no NEC, only a PDA ligation and reflux, which in the grand scheme is wonderful! There was a chance she was going to have to have her eyes worked on, but they improved on the follow up visit and ROP is no longer a real threat. Her 36 week cranial ultrasound was normal. She is such a remarkable little girl.:redbeatheHer mother and father have been such troopers through all of this. I can't imagine knowing what I know now about the typical 24 weekers course in the NICU and having the grace and peace that my co-worker and her husband have had. Reagan gets her remarkableness from her Mom and Dad!

One of my friends had a baby at 26 weeks, and she is now a completely normal 13-year-old.

:up:

Specializes in Oncology, radiology, ICU.

Can you send some of that water my way? We've been on hormone treatments for 7 unsuccessful months now.

Our unit has one pregnant, one that just had a baby, 2 new grandma's, and 3 TTC (which includes me).

Specializes in Renal; NICU.

Hey TigergalLE, I'd recognize that PAW anywhere: also huge Clemson fan and originally from SC (Greenville). Miss it very much. All my family is still there in the Clemson/Seneca/Greenville area.

So this pregnant water phenomenon is universal! And after hormone rx's failed, one of these girls had already started adoption proceedings then found she is pregnant! She and her husband are going ahead with the adoption (2 sibs) and building a beautiful family. :bowingpur

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