NICU "crafts"

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i have been pintersting lately...yes, it's so addicting. and i've come across several NICU crafts for different holidays, name tags, and bullitin boards. just curious what kind of things you all do in your NICU for moms and dads or to make the place look baby friendly? or does your unit allow these kinds of things?

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

We have boards in our waiting room and anteroom. We also have a doc who does photography and we have his pics if babies on our walls. We aren't allowed to tape anything up around the beds or on/in the beds.

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Specializes in Public Health, L&D, NICU.

I used to work NICU, now I work with new moms and babies in a long term capacity. I love Pinterest! For Mother's Day, we bought inexpensive frames at the dollar store, printed poems in pretty fonts on card stock, and then did footprints on them and framed them. If you Google "baby footprint poems" or "baby poems" you will find a ton of good ones. For instance, for one of my preemie babies, the card stock said, "There is no foot so small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world." The moms loved them, and it was really cheap and easy. It would be even cheaper if you left out the frames.

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Specializes in Nurse Scientist-Research.

Okay, I'll give my serious answer first then veer into sarcasm. I have virtually no "crafty" skills other than I can do decent footprints. My handwriting is pathetic so I rely on others to make the cute footprint cards for the parents. Recently our March of Dimes Representative set up a room for the parents where the MOD provides all the supplies for really cute footprint/name cards. I'll often volunteer to make the footprints for the parents and they can put them on the cards. That's about as crafty as I get.

Now for the sarcasm. . . If you want to make your unit look baby-friendly then you need to post pictures of formula bottles and pacifiers with horns and forked tails coming from them as well as pictures of screaming frustrated babies. . . but I digress. . .

Sorry, that had to slip out. Huge fan here of breastmilk and breastfeeding. Not so much for the "baby-friendly" framework for achieving that. . .

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