abckidsmom

If you didn't wash his armpits, he'd get a nasty rash under there, why would you not wash ALL of him. I hope in 80 years when my son might need care that the nurses caring for him are competent. No reason why any nurse can't clean a patient COMPLETELY.

My son is not circ'ed, my daughters don't have piercings. Any of them can choose to have them done when they are old enough. I wouldn't recommend a circ for him, though.

My husband and I are just considering planning for the "what ifs" in life, having plan for me going back to work if we should need me to. I graduated from nursing school, worked in a Surgery-Trauma ICU for a year, then left nursing to be a paramedic in a major city EMS system. I quite that after 4 years to be a SAHM. We now have (almost) 4 kids: 4 yo, 2.5 yo, 11 mo, and a new one due in May. I've maintained all my certifications: ACLS, PALS, BTLS, etc, and before I stopped working was an ACLS and PALS instructor. I can handle facts, they've just mostly escaped my brain after all this time. I love intense, difficult situations, I really thrive on managing the unexpected stuff, and since having kids I've found that I just love love love taking care of sick kids. Would it be a bad plan for me to intend to go to work in a PICU if I should need to go back to work? Do hospitals offer "refresher" programs if you have some critical care knowledge, but it's old or not applicable to your practice area? Any advice?

My husband took accutane for his severe cystic acne. (So bad he couldn't work because of the pain) It really calmed everything down for him and made it so the antibiotics could work again. He had the severe dry skin and peeling lips, and still has dry hands. There is a new procedure for prescribing accutane, I think I remember from a news report, where the dr posts the script on a website, the patient's pcp posts the method of birth control, and before the script can be filled, a lab has to post a neg pg test. TERRIBLE birth defects result from accutane! When dh was taking it, it came in a blister pack with a picture of a pregnant woman with a line through it on each blister, just for a reminder.

Thanks everyone. I guess I just will go it alone and tell my nurse to let the LC just keep walking past my door.

I'm not an ob nurse (STICU, if that matters), but I'm wondering what you guys think. When my first dd was born, the lactation consultant was really intimidating, had me all propped on pillows every time she came to help with nursing, the baby was not nursing well, and I was so stressed out I was sweating, every time I tried to nurse. We ended up going home, pumping and feeding her bottles for about a week until we got nursing established. With the second dd, I delivered at the same hosp, and didn't consider that the same LC would be there (stupid me, it was only 1.5 years later). The baby nursed well in the delivery room, and I just basically sat around all day nursing the baby because she was big into sucking and I liked the closeness with her. Then the LC came in, same thing with the pillows, saying I *must* nurse sidelying at least every other feeding or my milk wouldn't come "all the way in." Again, stressing me out, and the baby never nursed well when she was involved. Here I go for the 3rd baby. I know how to breastfeed. Sheesh, I've done it for 19 out of the last 36 months. I only want her advice, I don't want her to touch me or to tell me what positions I must use. I just want to work it out between me and my baby, and *if* we have problems, and only then, do I want her to help me. How can I communicate this to her or to my nurse without offending anyone, and maybe also let them know what stress she's brought to me in the past?