Funny/happy NICU moments needed

EricJRN, MSN, RN · Oct 21, 2006

I still bawl like a schoolgirl when my primary babies go home, and mom and dad are hugging me and crying, then I'm crying.....etc.......
IT'S ALL THE ESTROGEN IN THE AIR I'VE BEEN EXPOSED TO!...cajones confused and hibernating...yeah right!

I know, man! Look at what all these women are doing to us!

OK guys - what about the phototherapy kids who throw tantrums when you put their eye shields on, then you look back over in a minute and the eye shield is not only off of their face, but it's at the other end of the isolette! Some of these kiddos could pitch for major league teams.

BlueYYsRN · Oct 21, 2006

When the former micro preemie, trach chronic kid comes back to visit as a walking talking smiling three year old.

Gompers, BSN, RN · Oct 22, 2006

OK guys - what about the phototherapy kids who throw tantrums when you put their eye shields on, then you look back over in a minute and the eye shield is not only off of their face, but it's at the other end of the isolette! Some of these kiddos could pitch for major league teams.

And isn't it funny how they'll scream bloody murder and thrash around when they've got the eye shields on...and then they fall asleep the second they wrestle the shields off? Just blissfully sleeping, eyes uncovered, with a million watts of light shining down on them...

RainDreamer, BSN, RN · Oct 22, 2006

Oh yeah, the photo babies always have their eyeshields everywhere BUT their eyes. Heehee!

Reminds me of the little girl I had that was on nasal cannula. Fiesty little thing! Every time she'd have an A&B I'd look in her isolette and sure enough ..... nasal cannula in her nose? Nope. She'd have it in her eyes, around her neck ...... anywhere BUT her nose!

2curlygirls · Oct 22, 2006

I love "Eye-PAP". Oh and the poop squirts. Nothing like finding and scrubbing the poop out of isolette after a blow out!

prmenrs, RN · Oct 22, 2006

I had a kid recently do a projectile poop onto another kids brand new car seat! Mom really loved that! It was, like, 5ft away!!

RN_2_B_2006 · Oct 23, 2006

I've only been a NICU nurse for about 5 months..soooo lemme see...

-Trying to figure out why a baby's isolette is going nuts...and look inside to find the baby with the temperature probe in her mouth, sucking on it like a pacifier

-Monitor leads stuck to a baby's forehead

-One little boy who was on phototherapy and a nurse wrote "Name Me Daddy" on his eye patch because Mom and Dad were still deciding on a name

-A male nurse looking absolutely furious and when asked what's wrong...he replies "I've been peed on"

-Baby sleeping with a pacifier in the nostril lol

Gompers, BSN, RN · Oct 23, 2006

Baby sleeping with a pacifier in the nostril lol

I'm a big fan of the "pacifier in the ear" myself...

Gompers, BSN, RN · Oct 23, 2006

I had a kid recently do a projectile poop onto another kids brand new car seat! Mom really loved that! It was, like, 5ft away!!

That is absolutley disgusting!!! What did they do, just clean it???

I would have died!

prmenrs, RN · Oct 23, 2006

All we could do was clean it off-I used those disinfecting wipes. And then continued clean up on aisle 5's rug, bassinet, etc. The baby had been on antibiotics, hence the liquid effluent.

justjenny · Oct 23, 2006

Having a mother say to me "thank you for taking care of my baby". Gives me the chills EVERY DANG TIME and makes my night, no matter how bad, 100 times better.

The other night a Dad phoned to check on his baby and said "Thank you for taking care of our princess" and added "We missed you" (I had worked just the night before...it had only been 12 hours)

Jenny

2curlygirls · Oct 25, 2006

OK guys. Tomorrow is my first day back. Wish me luck!