Funny/happy NICU moments needed

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:scrying: After a wonderful 6 months maternity leave home with my girls, I'm headed back to the NICU and I need some encouragement. Help me remember WHY I love my job despite the horrendous hours.

OH, and my fridge died so 3/4 of my frozen milk supply was thawed:( and therefore ruined.

Need funny NICU moments to cheer me up! Thanks!

When I was still a student and doing my precpetorship in the NICU, I had one baby who was almost ready to go home and needed to run the car seat test first. Anyways while she was sitting in the corificeat she had a peculiar look on her face and she almost looked as if she was trying to flick us off with her middle finger. I jokingly told her "don't you stick your middle finger at us". It caused the parents to laugh hehe.

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I love dressing up the babies!!!! We had one feeder grower and her mom left an Easter Dress and asked if we could bath and dress her for when the family came to visit. Slow day, so we all gave her a huge bubble bath and dressed her in the frilliest dress I ever saw!She looked like a lamp!! We propped her up and took pictures of her as well as her in her bubble bath. So cute and funny!

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Specializes in midwifery, NICU.

:kiss putting twins together in the same cot/incubator for a wee cuddle!Love how they always touch each other then cuddle in to sleep! melts my heart.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I don't even work NICU but you guys are wonderful - thanks for the day brightener.

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When a parent gets to hold their baby for the first time, that is so heart-warming. Managing it with a tiny one on CPAP requires some time/effort, and engineering it with a baby on HFOV is really difficult, but the joy of the parents is worth it.

nell

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:kiss putting twins together in the same cot/incubator for a wee cuddle!Love how they always touch each other then cuddle in to sleep! melts my heart.

Where I am the docs likes twins to co-bed, unless there is a problem with one of the twins. Anyways, I love when they go to sleep and synchronize their heart rates or respiratory rates.

I don't work in the NICU yet, I am almost finished with my practicum. I hope to work there after graduation. I have been off a week and I really MISS those babies.

Loving your patients is a huge happy moment for me. I also love that sometimes the simplest things make a fussy baby happy, like a cuddle or a gentle head rub.

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Specializes in NICU.
:kiss putting twins together in the same cot/incubator for a wee cuddle!Love how they always touch each other then cuddle in to sleep! melts my heart.

Your post brings me back to the time I spent in Edinburgh with the community midwives there (I've since dragged my husband there because I loved it so much)

We have a nurse in our unit from Glasgow who always charts in the comment section "Out for a wee cuddle" I love it!

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Specializes in NICU.
When a parent gets to hold their baby for the first time, that is so heart-warming. Managing it with a tiny one on CPAP requires some time/effort, and engineering it with a baby on HFOV is really difficult, but the joy of the parents is worth it.

nell

Ohhh that's the absolute BEST!! Reminds me of a baby we had a few weeks ago for mec aspiration, sick little girl ..... mom couldn't hold the first few days because she was on HFOV and had UAC/UVC. This little girl started doing so great that they weaned her from the HFOV to the conventional vent to off the vent on room air in just a few hours. Then we moved her to an open crib. So the last time the mom saw her was in the morning and she was still on the radiant warmer, with the UVC/UAC, on the HFOV. Mom came in that night and just started BAWLING when she saw her in the open crib, off the vent, and only with a PIV. I asked how she was and she said "I'm great now!" I gave her a big hug and asked if she wanted to hold her. It was the first time she was able to hold her in her arms. It was awesome just watching her cuddle that sweet little baby :)

What a great thread, I love this!! Could we make this a sticky maybe?

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Specializes in NICU.
What a great thread, I love this!! Could we make this a sticky maybe?

Well, we already have a sticky about what we love about the NICU.

To the OP - maybe you should check that thread out, too?

https://allnurses.com/forums/f33/poll-what-do-you-love-about-nicu-101076.html

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Just today we discharged twins who had been with us for 12 weeks and gone throug everything there is I think.

The smiles on the parents and the hug and kind words from them were wonderful. This is why I do this, went trough my head. I love my job today.

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I was reading all of the replies. I laughed so had that I cried, about all of the Al Bundy babies, fighting twins and premies who positions themselves no matter how hard the nurse tries to establish a developmentally correct environment. That is some funny stuff! Thank you for reminding me what a great job I have to look forward to everyday.

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Specializes in Neonatal ICU (Cardiothoracic).

I laugh so hard when the baby I'm po feeding finally gets full, and takes on that "milk drunk" look.... then they get all offended when you try to burp them....

I still bawl like a schoolgirl when my primary babies go home, and mom and dad are hugging me and crying, then I'm crying.....etc.......

IT'S ALL THE ESTROGEN IN THE AIR I'VE BEEN EXPOSED TO!...cajones confused and hibernating...yeah right!

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