...walk into a bar. 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