Of course your baby is doing fine!! You are a good Mom. La Leche will never convince me that all the prisons and special needs classes are filled with people who were bottle fed. That is what they try to make it sound like with their formula is poi...
Your mother is way off base and with such a judgeMENTAL attitude she must be one awful L and D nurse. Our nurses have the same approach as the above posters, who all gave you excellent advice. What does your "mother" suggest you feed your infant sin...
Don't they teach you in your nursing program that you are expected as a nurse to treat EVERYONE with compassion and to the best of your ability? That means that when the alcoholic with DT's, the gangbanger with the GSW, the homeless person with i...
There was an article in the Maine paper about the c/sec rate here. One hospital had a 49% c/sec rate!!! All but one were in the 30% range. Now Maine women are not high powered execs who schedule a c/sec because of their busy lifestyle. The reasons...
You are so right, Tazzi. I lived this truth the last 10 years of my father's life. All it did was pit Dad against me and give me high BP. Is there anyone who your Mom will listen to? I imagine you and her Doc have read her the riot act already. D...
WOW! Let me see-there's a nursing shortage--right??? You call in legitimately sick or your kid's sick. You even have notes from a Dr. You do not have a hx of calling in. And these shortsighted morons whose "expertise" is in healthcare terminat...
I used it for 10 years. I used the Climara estrogen patch. I'd had a hyst 10 years earlier so only needed estrogen It was supposed to help prevent osteoporosis, heart disease and relieve menopausal hot flashes etc. Well, it was great in terms of...
JeannaRN replied to Calgon-take.me.away's topic in General Nursing
After having my cap get knocked of by the trapeze into a patient's USED bedpan--I gave up wearing a cap. I never had anyone treat me with less respect because of this.
JeannaRN replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism
On behalf of other nurses and the patients who we care for I, for one, thank you for your tenaciousness and tenacity to follow through with this since 2005. You are an inspiration to others, TNNURSE.
I have a periurethral defect---could that be the word? Kegals do NOT work with this--been doing them for years! I need a laparoscopic Burch Colposuspension.