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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I had 2 people in the room other than myself and the doc/nurses. My mom and my husband at the time, my son's daddy. I was worried that my mIL would want in to watch since she and SIL and BIL were...
My grandma had Alzheimers and as the disease progressed there was no bringing her back to our reality. She lived with us in the early stages and one day I brought my blanket into her room to watch TV...
I'm glad it will be available OTC, it's about time. I have had to use the Plan B, back when it was 8 birth control pills, take 4 one day and then take 4 more 12 hours later, once in 1997. I was 18, it...
Alixandra replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency
I know the first time was definetly an emergency, especially considering my temp went up after I took the Tylenol, so I knew I was in trouble. My husband was freaking that I was going to have a...
Alixandra replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency
I don't know why anyone would want to go to an ER unless they had to. Obviously a lot of people do since this thread is full of them. I have had to go to the 3 times in my adult life(infected finger...
When I was pregnant, I was working overnights and the only appointment that they had for my first appointment(and the first time I ever met the doc) was at the ungodly hour of like 10 AM. So I get up,...
Alixandra replied to mysticalwaters1's topic in Ob/Gyn
My sister in law lost her baby at 18 weeks. She went in for a routine ultrasound at 18 weeks and they found the baby was dead. This was a shock to the entire family since you figure once the first...