what exactly do they do.. I'm only in high school but I really want to go into nursing and work with newborns. I don't want to work in the NICU, I just want to work with the healthy new born babies. The nurse that weighs,measures them, takes their foot prints, gets them dressed, and basically takes care of the baby until it leaves from the hospital . I have came upon many sites and most of them all have different things and I was wondering what exactly does a matirnity nurse do?