Alixandra

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1. car seat overload--HELP!

   Alixandra replied to Almabella's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Yes, I look at the BabyCenter board daily, even if I don't post that much(ususally someone else has said exactly what I was going to say.) My screenname on BBC is MysonBobby. I got most of the...

2. car seat overload--HELP!

   Alixandra replied to Almabella's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Either side is equally safe as far as safety is concerned. When Bobby was first born my parents had installed it behind the driver's seat thinking it would be easier for me to get him in and out so I...

3. car seat overload--HELP!

   Alixandra replied to Almabella's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Yeah, I understand the not fitting in the car thing. I drive a 4 door Saturn SL-2 and even getting Bobby's Evenflo infant seat with the handle down to fit was a nightmare. The main thing with the...

4. car seat overload--HELP!

   Alixandra replied to Almabella's topic in Ob/Gyn

   It actually says in all infant seat manuals NOT to ever put the seat on top of a shopping cart because it is dangerous if the seat were to fall or the cart to tip, which is very easy due to the cart...

5. car seat overload--HELP!

   Alixandra replied to Almabella's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Here is the car safety board at babycenter.com http://boards.babycenter.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=bcus9421 They will answer all your questions and give you good advice on everything and also give...

6. Stadol Screamers

   Alixandra replied to 33-weeker's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I was given Stadol because they didn't want to give me an epidural yet. It was early in labor(about 5 hours before I had my son) so my son had no bad effects from it but still, never again. My husband...

7. pacify or orientate? Alzheimers...

   Alixandra replied to Lfransis's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   With a pt who doesn't have dementia you can and do have to bring them back to reality when they get off track. About 9 years ago my boyfriend at the time and I were living in Vegas and boyfriend's...

8. Docs making stupid decisions

   Alixandra replied to htrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I was induced at 39 weeks for PIH. My doctor wanted to induce me at 38 weeks but luckily the way things worked out I was induced at exactly 39 weeks. When I went in the night before to have my cervix...

9. How safe are IUD's?

   Alixandra replied to eng_nurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I had my Mirena inserted Dec 02 and was not on my period so they had to open my cervix slightly to insert it. Yeah, it hurt but felt nothing like labor pains. I had had my son in Sept that year so...

10. Largest baby

    Alixandra replied to MemphisOBRNC's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have a friend whose last child was 14 lbs at birth. It was a natural childbirth, no meds and lady partsl. Her child is now around my age(27) and was born in a military hospital and she says she...

11. Are you afraid to go to the ER?

    Alixandra replied to scrmblr's topic in Emergency

    I ended up having to go last week for severe nausea, diarrhea, mid-ab pain(8/10 a lot worse than early-mid labor pains.) Vommitting, oh I wish I could have vommitted I think it would have made me feel...

12. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Alixandra replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    If you have a 'pimple' in your perineal area that starts growing, weeping, and gets really hot and painful you should prolly go to the dr and get it checked out since chances are it's staph. LOM...

13. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Alixandra replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    This is a case of the truth being stranger than fiction. He wanted a divorce and got a girlfriend the next day(I have a feeling she had been on the side for a while) after he told me he wanted out. I...

14. can gallstones return?

    Alixandra replied to DianeS's topic in Gastroenterology

    I had mine out at 25 and I went in at 6 AM to get everything done and was out before noon. I spent several days on the couch watching TV. I will say if you watch TV do not watch anything that will...

15. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Alixandra replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    This wasn't a patient but my idiotic ex-husband: Don't have a vasectomy and take 4 vicodin in 3 hrs, no matter how much pain you are in. If you do, do not get up to go to the bathroom while everyone...