Facilitate urination in an infant?

[desertstudent]

Hi there!

My pedi instructor is gonna drive me batty! She makes up her own questions and sometimes they are completely bizarre....like this one. I am trying to figure out how to facilitate urination in an infant. She doesn't want to know how to apply a U-bag or obtain a sample with a supra-pubic aspiration...none of that. Not even the diaper/syringe method. I've looked in my pedi books, my pedi reference books, the lippincott, and the web. It makes me think it's another one of her crazy self-created questions. If anyone knows what would "facilitate the urination of an infant" please let me know. Thanks so much!

[Clovery]

here's what works for my little boy:

1. put baby on changing table

2. remove diaper

3. look away for a second to grab a wipe

4. you and/or the baby will now be covered in pee

it also helps if you just changed his outfit, or if you have a set of clean clothes on the changing table for him to aim for

seriously though, i have no idea what your instructor is looking for. it does seem to make them go when the cool air hits their skin during a diaper change.

[Mandychelle79, ASN, RN]

if you are not trying to get a sample, pouring warm water over the genitals will some times make someone go, Used to do this to my dtg who would hold it forever.

[EricJRN, MSN, RN]

Do you think it could be something deceptively simple, like ensuring adequate fluid intake?

[xtxrn, ASN, RN]

What EricJRN said....

The most common cause of decreased urine output in a baby is dehydration.

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

every pediatrician who has ever examined a newborn knows that if you hold the baby in your palm, face down, they pee.

everyone who's ever been to summer camp knows that putting the hands in warm water makes your victim want to pee (this is why you pee before you wash your hands and put on sterile gloves, lol). see if that's what she means.

good hydration will do it, though.

[nichole_byr78]

I work on post partum and if we have a newborn who hasn't urinated then we do what is called the "pee pee dance". I forget the technical term. What you do is hold the infant up by supporting their chest and dangle their feet in the air. It helps the body to relax and stimulates it to urinate.

[LadyinScrubs, ASN, RN]

i work on post partum and if we have a newborn who hasn't urinated then we do what is called the "pee pee dance". i forget the technical term. what you do is hold the infant up by supporting their chest and dangle their feet in the air. it helps the body to relax and stimulates it to urinate.

"the pee pee dance"--ah, what we nurses learn. don't suppose we will be seeing that on dancing with the stars.