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Do any of your units use random donor milk? For example adoptive parents or a mother unable to produce milk wanting to use a friend or relatives breast milk for their baby in the NICU.

Due to the dramatic increase in NAS babies we have implemented a policy. 3 scores of 9 or more or 2 scores of 12 or more admission to NICU. We start with morphine, weaning over several days. But will also add methadone if needed after 2 days. Still doesn't work we add nuero meds such as nuerotin or baclofen. It has been successful having all the providers on the same page.

we also band every baby with a posey soft band, and have a barcode label taped to our monitors. Works very well.

We recently built a new private room NICU. unfortunately we have also recently experienced a dramatic increase in NAS babies. Our beautiful new unit has become a flop house. anyone else having issues with this?