luvallbabies

i have been down to the daycare a few times now,, my nerves are just about shot now over leaving them but i know they will be ok, once they get into the routine, its just the putting them in that routine that is worrying me~ stressing~ me out! i have been trying to wean my youngest but he still wants breastmilk during the day , i am sure if he gets thirsty he will drink regular milk and they will be on campus with me so i will leave strict instructions to call me if he doesn't calm down,

i start school the 31st,, i am so excited ,, i just know i will be happy if i become a L&D nurse,, there is nothing in this world more precious than bringing in a new life,, my only concern~~ other than math of course~~ is leaving my 4 kids,,i have never even left them w/ a babysitter, i ran an inhome daycare so i could raise my own kids but i have a 17 mth old and a 4 yr old that will be going to the daycare on campus w/ me,,i am so stressed about leaving them that i cry every time i think about it, does it get easier?? i know w/ the daycare babies i have had ,, they cry and cry untill their mom is out of site but then they stop and go play, i just don't know how i am going to be able to handle that,, not to mention i still breastfeed my youngest , so i worry about how he is going to deal w/ me being gone all day. my older kids will be in school so i don't have to worry about them , how do you deal w/ putting your kids in daycare for the first time???? i just called in an order for xanax but i cannot be taking that during the day because it puts me to sleep ~sigh~ i am sure i wil have to take one the night before thou,,

a bout a yr and a half ago my 7 yr old had been complaining that right above his knee was hurting , he would limp around me , but i thought he was just trying to get attention,, my father had just passed away and we just had a new baby, a few days later we were at mcdonolds w/ my mom and he was playing ,, running around everywhere but still limping so my mom made me take him to the ER, i really felt stupid bringing him and even told the nurses i really didn't think anything was wrong with him,,~~ but i still listen to my mom~~ anyway they got him right in ,, did a ton of tests on him , one he even had to go to sleep for,, ~~now i am wanting to sh*t my pants, and they had a bone specialist come down and talk to me, they thought he might have a bone infection in the hip,, i guess the tests came back negative so we got to go home,the next day we were tracked down,, i have never had so many drs and nurses ever go all out in looking for my where abouts, and they wanted me to bring him back to the er immediatly because they needed to admit him , i don't know all the terms they use, but they started him on iv antibiotics and said he was septic but still he was fine running around playing video games in the peds ward, the dr couldn';t believe how active he was, we were there for a few weeks then he had a picc line in at home for quite some time, then oral antibiotics and here i didn't want to bring him in and if i had waited any longer he might have had to have surgery,

I guess it just hit me one day while i was at the ER because my baby ~just crawling~ stuck his hand over the steam vent on the rice cooker and burnt the crap out of his tiny hand,it bubbles almost immediatly, I had slapped a gob of silvadene sp? on it and wrapped it in guaze then took him into the ER, the nurse there asked me if i was a nurse, I said no but thought to myself I would like to be,~he has no scarring but it was awful when his skin came off~ I also had a wonderful OB that delivered all 4 of my kids and the labour nurses were really great,, 2 were by csec and the mother baby nurses were also sooo wonderful and caring ~~ok except the one that stole half my pain meds when the hospital tried doing the self medicate program~ I am not sure which field of nursing I am going to go into but I am really excited about becoming one,

OMG!!!!!!!

w/ a migrine food would be the last thing on my mind,,

i have been perscribed ultram and broke out in hives, i am not sure if that is an nsaid so if i tell you that would i be labeled a seeker?? i am just so afraid of being stereo typed , the clinic here in town sucks,, your appt can be for 1 oclock and you will still be in the waiting room at three,, i am suprised they still have pts that go to them, i do have imitex now that i inject myself and have not had any problems,, plus it works great ,, i had been perscribed vicodin before but w/ the nasau sp? i get from my migraine, the vicodin usually ends up in the toilet and if it doesn't i am sleepy with a migraine, its a no win with that med,, i have seen a pt once when i was in the er w/ my child and she was actually arguing w/ the dr about what she wanted for pain , i was embarressed for her, and once at my ob's i over heard the nurses talking about a druggie that just called in for a refill of something,, so when i need medical help,~some sort of med~, i am really reluctant to go to the er unless its so bad i would rather die than try to stick it out, so on top of wishing my head would just expole off i also have to worry about what might be being said behind my back, i guess its certain people screw it up for the rest

you are the type of person that makes me afraid to go to the er for my migraines,, have you ever had a headache so bad that you wished your head would jsut explode to relive the pressure? last feb 2003 i had to go twice in one wk , the local clinic never called me back and i just couldn't stand it anymore,, i have 4 kids and was stuck in bed w/ no lights ~no noise~ and my puke bucket, i finally went in to the er and they gave me a shot of demerol, i think,, anyway it was a narcotic,, it still didn't take my headaache away ,, the next day i still had it , it was a sat so i had to go back to the er,, so yes i guess that looks bad , and yes if i go to the er i am going for medicine, it doesn't have to be a narcotic,, i'll take whatever works, this time they put fluids in me and an iv of something that wasn't narcotic and it worked,, i wish i knew what it was so if i need to ever go back i can ask for it by name., not every migraine sufferer is a narcotic drug seeker,, a drug seeker yes but for the high ,,no,,i can think of better things to do w/ my time than sit in the er

I haven't read thru all the responses but I was worried about the weight issue,w/ having all 4 of my kids at the same hospital almost every single nurse was way way waaayyy overweight in the mother baby unit,, I would like to work in the delivery unit but I was worried that in that part of the hospital , maybe work was to relaxed and the nurses just gained weight sitting there doing paper work while every 4 hrs bringing pt their meds????please correct me if I am wrong

nobody???????????????/// no nurses have any advice ????

Hi, This is my first post here although I really have enjoyed reading through some of the threads. I am going to start school next mth to get my core classes done then I start an LPN program the following spring, my main goal is to become and RN in labor and delivery, My Dr who delivered all 4 of my children suggested I skip the LPN program and go strait to the RN program, I was thinking of working as an LPN for awhile then going for my RN so I would have the LPN experience first. What do you guys suggest? I do want to keep taking classes after I become an RN also, and I can't wait to help moms bring their new babies into this world, is working in L&D harder than other areas of nursing? to me it seems like it would be fun but then I don't know everything they do, my husband is also worried about the emotional aspect of nursing because if you told me your husbands, dads, daughters, friends, sister died I would cry,, also I am going to be 32 here soon,, is that to old to be starting a nursing career?? Thanks in advance for any advice/suggestions