I'm glad to hear that this isn't the typical baby friendly experience. I think breastfeeding is wonderful and there are so many benefits to skin to skin vs. the warmer and rooming in. It seems as...
The hospital that I work at is in the process of becoming baby friendly, and I have some questions about how the baby friendly initiative is implemented in other hospitals. I want to start by saying...
I reread my post and now I think that I sound uncaring. I really do try to treat everyone with kindness and respect and I care about my patients while I am at the hospital. I introduce myself and...
I have noticed on a lot of our lovely press gainey comments that our patients say that they don't feel that we nurses care about them. This got me to wondering what exactly patients expect from a...
I like to read birth plans. I think that they are interesting. I work in postpartum, so I get to see how things play out after the fact. Most of the things that people request are things that are...
It was probably a really bad idea for me to join a pregnancy bulletin board. I don't know what I was thinking. All of the crazy misinformation that people give eachother over the internet wants to...
I am feeling whiny today, and I am blaming it on the pregnancy hormones . . . I just want to know why oh why anyone would think that it is appropriate to visit a postpartum unit with your three...
I was just wondering what other hospitals do about this. Where I work, when the OB is ready to do the circ, that's when it happens. This morning, an OB wanted to circ a baby at five minutes to...
When I take a bf baby to the nursery, I tell the parents something like, "Your baby breastfed at ten pm, so he will probably be back to nurse sometime around one. I will bring him back earlier if he...
As a postpartum nurse, I do not supplement breastfed babies with formula unless the parents request for the baby to be supplemented. I kind of take offense to the above statement. We don't go around...
In every job that I have ever held, even when I worked at fast food places in high school, it was always made clear that racist comments would not be tolerated. We are all adults and we are all...
I was a NA on the same floor where I'm now an RN. I work in postpartum. I can remember thinking --she only has 3 rooms, 6 patients, and I have eight rooms, 16 people. It will be so much easier when...
I work in postpartum. We do fundal checks on our C-Section patients on admission, then every four hours for the next 24 hours, then q 8 hours after that. For lady partsl deliveries, fundal checks...
You already know that you have a potential problem, and that is half of the battle already. It seems like you are concerned that you don't want to upset anyone or treat them differently, so just be...
A few weeks ago I had a patient who was having a hard time breastfeeding. She told me that she wasn't how committed she was to breastfeeding, and that she just wanted to try it while she was in the...