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Well, interestingly, my daughter had grand mal seizures - uncontrolled no matter the medication or surgical procedure we had tried. I started to notice that her seizures were most often affiliated...

In premature infants with post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus, over draining can cause the skull to collapse and cause more hemorrhaging.

This is an outstanding series of articles. Thank you! Well done.

This was a succinct article, clarifying the two B's. Thank you! Such a difference between a personality conflict and true bullying. Bullying certainly is the nurse who is in a position of...

My first degree was in marketing, and I remember well the personnel management class and the discussion about being impossible to be an effective manager as well as a friend. I have worked in 2...

Well said. The Canadian physicians basically said this was a futile case. Well. . .they were right. It just took a little longer and a hell of a lot more resources for the same conclusion. People...

At some point, "care" becomes "torture". . This was pretty selfish on the part of the parents to prolong this. And I'm coming from personal experience of having to make a similar decision for my own...

Most excellent article. I too, have been in a dept with very low morale, short-staffing (I know, big yawn, heard it all before). .but the hospital I worked at was also a "magnet hospital". .and I...

this is so dis-heartening, no - disgusting! poor fetal baby.

Sooooo many times, over the years, people (many of them health care professionals who should know better),have said that because of the girls being born at 24-25 weeks 25 years ago, that is the...

Actually, the grieving is for the many many times I sat by her bedside in the NICU, in the PICU's, peds, ERs, at home watching her suffer and being powerless to stop it. Well, I was finally able to...

An update. Mercifully, my daughter passed away on July 8th after being hospitalized for aspiration pneumonia following status epilepticus. She was loved, she will be missed, but she is so at peace....

Very cool. Thanks for sharing your strange experiences! Whew! Creepy.

So, so selfish. Good to hear the clinic doing this was not in the U.S. Still - disgusting though.

How unethical. The Dr. who agreed to do this should have his/her license suspended. This is in the same league as Nadia Suleman's fertility Dr. who continued to impregnate her. . I grew up with...

How to basically teach caring? Yikes. This seems pretty innate to me - either you've got it, or you don't. But to teach this? It reminds me of that movie Harrison Ford was in a number of years...

From my experience and from being a part of preemie parent blogs, boards, attending conferences over the years, I would agree - NICU care has over-stepped. There is not enough support to care for...

NICUgal - difficult to read your post. If you didn't question this horrific "care" - you would no longer be human.

There are many children with mod to severe disabilities who attend college but who will never live independently - just saying, because this seems to be the belief that if they grad college they are...

Should have been "EPICure" study, not "Epic" - my apologies.

I agree with you so completely, Dawngloves. THE problem, is, is that NICU preemie graduates are generally only followed developmentally to age 3. Up to that point, only the more severely...

I know that in the NICU, there is a federal law called "The Baby Doe Laws" from 1984, still in effect today. .it was enacted because of an infant born in Indiana with Downs' Syndrome and other...

Riveting. Thought-provoking. Thank you again.

What an excellent series of articles! Bravo. I too, am a RN, but first and foremost, mom to twins who were born at 25ish weeks. One of my daughters sustained a grade IV bilateral brain bleed. We...

It would be a good idea to give a 2 week notice, as if you are applying for future jobs, you will need to list this job on your application. Generally, these apps ask who was your immediate...