Is it made of acid? Fire? Cactus stickers?

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Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.

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. :)

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Specializes in NICU.

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!"

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Specializes in L&D,Mother/Baby, WHNP,Educator,NICU.

LOL!!!!:yelclap:

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

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

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

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Specializes in nursing education.

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

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

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'.:lol2:

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Specializes in Forensic Psych.

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

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

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Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.

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.

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Specializes in PICU, Sedation/Radiology, PACU.

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!

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Specializes in Peds/Neo CCT,Flight, ER, Hem/Onc.

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.

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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!

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