Is it made of acid? Fire? Cactus stickers?

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

Thermometers, I mean. These babies act like you're setting them on fire when you put the thermometer in the axillary pocket. I've decided that, from now on, I'd I need to stimulate a baby during a b&d, I'm gonna just poke a thermometer under his arm. Babies are silly. :)

[babyNP., APRN]

aHAHHAHAHA!

really made me lol :)

I tell this to parents all the time while teaching them how to take axillary temps..."For most, it's way worse than getting a heel stick!"

[obprof]

LOL!!!!:yelclap:

The parents always think I am really hurting their baby, ie. breaking the kiddo's arm by holding it.

[NicuGal, MSN, RN]

Lol...I always tell parents...they act like we are doing the worst thing ever to them lol

[SHGR, MSN, RN, CNS]

Wow, imagine if you did a rectal temp (that's our P&P in outpatient)!!

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

Ohhhh, they HATE that!!! And who wouldn't? But you stick a thermometer under a baby's arm and they think it's the end of the world....they don't know how it was in the 'old days'.

[Stephalump]

Whatever they're made of, they must be manufactured in the same plant as bulb syringes!!!

[workingharder]

I can't explain the little girls' problem. For the little boys, just reassure them that it is NOT another circumcision.

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

It seems like the thermometers we use take an hour to register a temp. I was just laughing at my 600g 3 week old 24 weeker tonight...she was raising heck, twisting her shoulder, grabbing her ETT and HFJV tubing, and doing that precious, sweet, d'aww pretty preemie with an ETT cry-face.

[Double-Helix, BSN, RN]

Older babies and kids have the same problem! They never grow out of it, and I can't explain it, either. From babies that are a few months old all the way up to two year olds, they all put up a fuss when it's temperature time!

[FlyingScot, RN]

I actually got written up once for the way a 3 year old acted when I took an axillary temp with a "temp-a dot". The mother was having a heenie and I was trying to lighten the mood and said "It's a good thing we aren't doing this the old-fashioned way". She told my manager that I said to the kid "If you don't stop it I'm going to shove this up your a$$". Yeah right...that's exactly what I said 'cause that's how I roll.

[Galore]

So true! I can sometimes get away with starting an IV or doing blood draws without the baby ever waking up, but they pitch a fit when it's time for their temperature!