L&D “extremes”

[SDtraumamama18]

What are some extremes you’ve come across in your career? Biggest/smallest full term baby, youngest/oldest mother, the most kids in one family, largest set of multiples, the longest overdue... or whatever else you can think of.

[blustars3893]

I've only been working L&D for 2 years, but here goes:

Largest set of multiples: Triplets

Longest overdue: 42.3 weeks

Youngest mother:: 14 years

Oldest mother: 50+ years

Grand multipara: G18

Biggest baby: 11 lbs

Smallest baby: 4 lbs.

Biggest EBL: 2000+

[Skips, MSN, RN]

I have been in OB for 2.5 years. Here are my numbers so far:

Largest set of multiples: triplets

Longest overdue: 42.2 weeks

Youngest mother: 16

Oldest mother: 43

Grand multipara: 12

Biggest baby: 11#10oz

Smallest baby: 1 pound 6 oz

Biggest QBL: 3000

[Wuzzie]

Biggest baby- 14lbs and change

Smallest baby- 350gms

Both happened to be in the unit at the same time. I footprinted them and copied the footprints side by side on cardstock. It was almost mind-blowing.

[I'maLaborNurse]

Largest set of multiples: Triplets

Longest overdue: 42.2 weeks

Youngest mother:: 12 years

Oldest mother: 50+ years

Grand multipara: G16

Biggest baby: 11sih lbs

Smallest baby: 348gm

Biggest EBL: (mostly quantitative!) 8500 (and yes she kept her uterus!)

[lsnyder824, BSN, RN]

L&D for 20 years:

Largest set of multiples: Quints

Longest overdue: 42.2

Youngest mother:: 13 years

Oldest mother: 45 years

Grand multipara: G16 (Amish)

Biggest baby: 12lb 6oz

Smallest baby: to survive delivery? 14oz. Not sure if she made it out of NICU....it was years ago.

Biggest EBL: over 3L

[haunani, BSN, RN]

Postpartum for 6 years/L&D for 2 months:

Largest set of multiples: Twins

Longest overdue: 42

Youngest mother: 12 years

Oldest mother: 52 years

Grand multipara: G17 P17 (also a G19 P2)

Biggest baby: 12lb 8oz

Smallest baby: 1lb 2oz

Biggest EBL: over 5L

[midwife228]

I have worked in small community hospitals and large teaching hospitals, in L&D, Postpartum and NICU as a nurse for 18 years and 19 years as a midwife, so these are collective statistics from all of those:

Largest set of multiples: triplets

Longest overdue - 42 and 3 days (though my own youngest was 42.6)

Youngest mother - 11

Oldest mother - 62 or 63 (IVF, don't even get me started on this one!)

Grand multipara - G16

Biggest baby - 14+ lbs.

Smallest baby - about 12 oz. (I admitted this baby to the NICU but he or she survived less than 24 hrs.) Smallest baby at fullterm - less than 4 lbs.

Biggest EBL - not exactly sure, but know I've seen over 2L

[labordude, BSN, RN]

L&D for 4.5 years, NICU for 9+

Largest set of multiples: Quads

Longest overdue: 42.3

Youngest mother:: 11 years

Oldest mother: 53

Grand multipara: G15

Biggest baby: 12lbs 2oz (Sumo Sam!)

Smallest baby: 375 grams (that little bugger was tough as nails!)

Biggest QBL: 7500

[KristinaCalin, ASN]

L&D: 25 years (floated to NICU & PP too)....many years in a large, High Risk University Hospital where I saw ALOT

Largest set of multiples: Quints

Longest overdue: 43-44 weeks (no prenatal care, but sure LMP & gestational age assessments coincided)

Youngest mother: 10....with twins ?

Oldest mother: 57 (Trisomy 18, non-viable)

Grand Multip: G18

Biggest Baby: 14+ lbs....SVD ?

Smallest baby (that survived): 450 gm

Biggest EBL: Can’t remember the #, but covered most of the OR

[NurseKait_11, BSN, RN]

10 and 11 years old?? That makes my heart hurt. I just can't imagine that or how that even happened ?

[YYZ0821, RN]

I've only been in postpartum for 11 months and L&D for only 5-6 months, but in that time this is what I've seen:

Largest set of multiples: Triplets

Longest gestation: 42+5

Youngest: 13y.o

Oldest: 43y.o.

Grand Multip: G19

Biggest Baby: 11lb 3oz

Not sure about smallest one

Biggest EBL: Either 6 or 7L, DIC, kept her uterus!