Do you guys read birth plans?

shay · May 25, 2002

Originally posted by BugRN
To Shay, I salute you!!! Couldn't have said it better myself.

said in best Elvis inpersonation.... Thank ya....thank ya very much....

nursechar · May 29, 2002

Personally, I don't mind birth plans as long as the people writing them have done their homework. We still get birth plans that say no enema or shave prep, haven't been doing either one for umpteen years! Come in with a realistic, well thought out birth plan and it will get read, all others get thrown under who knows what in the chart and C/S papers are pulled.

luvmyboys · May 30, 2002

I'm new...what's a primip?

finallyRN · May 30, 2002

a primip is someone who is having her first baby. a Multip is someone who already has a baby and is having a second,third or more baby. The technical term is a primparous (sp?)

luvmyboys · May 30, 2002

Thanks so much. I really mulled that over and just couldn't quite figure it out. And I must say - finally someone else from CA!! I haven't run into many of us west coasters!

sandstormsdust · Jun 1, 2002

I don't know of a single woman who has given birth lady partslly and the baby hasn't ended up with thrush.

If there is only a slim possiblity for a baby to be blind why don't hospitals give out thrush medication before they send the mothers home....

In my eyes... it makes the mother feel incompetent with breastfeeding when the baby gets thrush, makes it painful for the mother and on top of all that you skeeze goo in a babies eyes... with the slit possiblity of the baby going blind..... all this med stuff when it comes to babies pisses me off.

Your procedure interfers when they arn't suppose to and stands away saying dike when it is most needed.

shay · Jun 1, 2002

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...........................

What the hell are you talking about?

fergus51 · Jun 1, 2002

I second shay... HUH?

I know about a zillion women (okay, more like a few thousand) who have given birth lady partslly and their babies didn't get thrush...

mark_LD_RN · Jun 1, 2002

Originally posted by nursechar
Personally, I don't mind birth plans as long as the people writing them have done their homework. We still get birth plans that say no enema or shave prep, haven't been doing either one for umpteen years! Come in with a realistic, well thought out birth plan and it will get read, all others get thrown under who knows what in the chart and C/S papers are pulled.

You are no t correct in the enema and shave prep not being done for years. we have a few docs here and at some of the hospitals i have travel to that still have shave and prep orders. So if a patient does not want them i suggest they put it in there plan.

I agree with you that a birth plan should be researched and well written. I personally prefer those patients over non plan couples. I have not seen the supposed increase in c/s for birth plan couples. I think it is just that when it happen it is remembered more.

nursechar · Jun 3, 2002

I bet those poor women just love getting something stuck up there butt and then shaved while in labor. I would like to know the doc's rationale for doing these things, and I would bet the doc's who are ordering such are going off of their standing orders from the 1950's. Sounds like a great teaching opportunity for both the doc's as well as informing the pt's that they can refuse such indignities.

mark_LD_RN · Jun 3, 2002

I inform all my patients of their right to refuse treatments such as these. I hardly ever give enemas or preps. only if the patient insists i do it. which a few do. you may not believe this but some of the docs ordering them are new, practicing for less than two yrs.

nursechar · Jun 4, 2002

Mark,

Sounds like you might still have time to possibly re-educate those newer docs and possibly make them re-think their rationale for doing shaves and enemas. I would bet their instructors always did it that way, so they are just keeping up the tradition. It would be interesting to find out their thoughts on the subject.