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just wanted to bump this up to the top and see if anybody had any new names to add. I love this, it always gives me a chuckle.

Hi We have used glycerin with stoma powder and questran all mixed together. You can spread it as thin or as thick as you need it in different areas

I would love a copy as well :) thanks in advance Tina [email protected]

So facing yet another uniform change, this time going the freedom to chose which ever kind of scrubs we want to being mandated a hospital wide uniform has got me wondering what does everybody else wear in their units? Currently we wear scrubs with appropriate patterned print or solid tops,trying to put a little life into our very sterile NICU. Does anybody know of any studies that talk about scrubs and NICU's or parents perceptions of Nurses?

Memorial Health in Savannah, Ga offers a perinatal conference the first week of march every year. I have gone the last few years and the NICU side has been pretty good. I am looking forward to this year's speaker as I have heard him before and he was great.

okay the newest one we had was - mignon someone looked it up and it supposedly means cute we all just called her Filet(sp)

Our step-down unit is basically one big room. *We try to place those babies away from each other as they seem to feed off each other once they start to cry. *We try to have them as a 3 baby assignment whenever possible and only 1 withdrawing baby per nurse. *We all take turns holding them it seems. *Swings are our friends, bouncy seats used to be our friends until one of our neos lost her mind and now we can only use them in peds cribs, sigh. *usually we seem to be giving morphine right around feeding time because we don't make these babies wait and if you give it too early they fall asleep and then they won't eat so you are faced with a lose/lose, win/win depending on how you look at it all I can think of off the top of my head Tina

We've had two cleft/methadone babies back to back and have had at least 6 methadone babies through our doors since just before Christmas. Most of the moms say the same thing, they never new that their baby would go through withdrawl, they were told that they would be fine and go home with them. I agree abour disliking the clinic, it seems like we get the kids off but the mom's stay on. What's fair in that?

Our NNP's use Neo-Data and their info is nicely transferred over to our report sheets. It makes giving report so much easier since everything is there all we have to do is run down the sheet for each patient and make personal additions. Tina

we don't use humidity at all in our isolettes. If they are wee (under 800g I think the protocol is now) they get 5 days of aquaphor to help with the fluid loss thru the skin but otherwise nada. They keep talking about trying out humidity since we got our first giraffe a year or so ago but nothing has happened yet. Tina

ok you are right I mixed terms up a little bit suction = bubbling water in chamber (although we are switching to dry suction soon) water seal/gravity same thing as far as I know...no suction

When I was a little girl, the older lady who stayed at the cottage next to ours was named Baby girl as well. She married a man whose last name was Blue so her leagal name was Baby Blue. (the story she told me was that he dad got so excited filling out the birth certificate that he wrote baby girl whatever on the paper work) So I guess way back the last century (probably 1920 or so ) people were calling the kids baby girl too. :)

Hi, The way we do it is: Water seal is hooked up to wall suction so you get a nice rolling bubble in your water chamber (we usually keep ours at 15) gravity is when we turn the suction off we almost always clamp it for several hours before pulling it out to make sure that there is a seal tina

we now have a baby whose name on quick glance looks like lesbian, mom says its pronounced le-say-bian (it's not spelled that way) I'd hate to be her come middle school

If they are stable a swing or a vibrating bouncy seat is a wonderful thing but don't forget the all important pacifier, please don't forget the pacifier. They all seem to have that hyperactive suck and get really upset when that "binkie" in not present, even sound a sleep they will suck on that thing. tina