Also this notion that Johnson's Baby Shampoo is going to wash off bloodborne pathogens enough to make babies "safe" enough to handle without gloves - ha. We should always handle babies with gloves for BOTH our sakes. Nurses have THE GROSSEST germs ...
I've been an L&D RN for about 15 years and the reasons we delay bathing are these: 1) vernix is anti microbial, anti fungal, etc and protects skin from dryness, therefore lessening the chance of cracking and letting pathogens in 2) bathing can c...
I moved to Baja recently and LOVE IT. I moved from the bay area of San Francisco and feel SO much safer here. People are friendlier, everyone wants to help, it's amazing. If I never had to go back to the US I'd be happy as pie. But I have to, I w...