Admitting newborn at the bedside

[PinkNBlue]

Hi all-

How do you handle things with mom and baby after baby is born? In an effort to keep mom and baby together, we've tried different things but am curious what some of your units have done as far as bathing, assessment of the newborn etc. We do not do LDRP. Thanks for your input, in advance :-)

[PinkNBlue, BSN, RN]

Awesome. Thanks everyone!!

[HyperSaurus, RN, BSN]

if it's during the magic hour they will call stork squad (nicu) to come assess the baby.

Stork squad...*snort*, I love that

[chiandre]

We do everything at the bedside. We are in the process of closing the nursery. We will use the nursery for special circumstances.

[debsgreys]

We always have an admission nurse at each delivery. We are in the process of becoming Baby Friendly ( I do not like the term). She does meds, admission asses. etc. Our moms stay in L&D for 2 hours.They both are transferred to our M/B unit. The baby never leaves the room. We have even done skin to skin in the OR, if mom and baby are stable. If not baby meets up with mom in RR. Our patients are informed at their early prenatal visits of the process of mom/baby. Rarely do we have complaints that there is no nursery for their baby to go to at night.

[Katie71275]

Nursery does not come in at deliveries. We will have special care (NICU) come in for meconium, preterm, PIH, and many other complications. However, for a normal uncomplicated delivery, we will call a second L&D nurse in for baby care. That nurse weighs baby, does the first vitals at 15-20min, apgars, etc. We inititate skin to skin and breastfeeding in the first hour. The nursery does come after 1 hr and in the room does the baby's second vitals, bath, Vit K, erythromycin, and the Hep B also I think. I really like our setup. I think it works well and allows mom and dad to bond as soon as possible after birth as possible.