JeannaRN

Of course your baby is doing fine!! You are a good Mom. La Leche will never convince me that all the prisons and special needs classes are filled with people who were bottle fed. That is what they try to make it sound like with their formula is poison crapola.

Your mother is way off base and with such a judgeMENTAL attitude she must be one awful L and D nurse. Our nurses have the same approach as the above posters, who all gave you excellent advice. What does your "mother" suggest you feed your infant since your milk dried up?? Does she expect you to hire a wet nurse??

Don't they teach you in your nursing program that you are expected as a nurse to treat EVERYONE with compassion and to the best of your ability? That means that when the alcoholic with DT's, the gangbanger with the GSW, the homeless person with infected feet and lice, the child abuser etc. come in, a NURSE is expected to give them the same care and compassion that he/she would give Mrs. Gotrocks from 5th Avenue or the President of the USA. You are not there to judge these patients or teach them YOUR values. You will probably do that in your heart, but your actions and your mouth should not show these patients anything but professional care and courtesy. It is hard to do, but not impossible as evidenced by many nurses who are compassionate and caring with these patients. Unless you can separate your feelings from your professional duty you and the patients would be better served working in another field. No matter where you go in nursing you are going to encounter people whose values and lifestyle will clash with your own. As the above poster said, many of these people are "helped" along the way and turn out fine. But you seem to be judging a teen Mom who did not make the choice you would have. THAT is not helpful.

There was an article in the Maine paper about the c/sec rate here. One hospital had a 49% c/sec rate!!! All but one were in the 30% range. Now Maine women are not high powered execs who schedule a c/sec because of their busy lifestyle. The reasons given for the high rate were--ACOG's edict on VBAC's and litigation fears of MD. Nowhere was DR's convenience or pt's convenience mentioned. One MD talked about WHO's policy that c/sec rates should only be 15%. He said "Maybe in Angola. There aren't many lawyers there."

You are so right, Tazzi. I lived this truth the last 10 years of my father's life. All it did was pit Dad against me and give me high BP. Is there anyone who your Mom will listen to? I imagine you and her Doc have read her the riot act already. Does she know stroke victims? Bring her to a nursing home and scare the beejeezus out of her? This is your future, MOM if you don't shape up? Nothing worked with Dad and he died anyway. Totally noncompliant and he lived to 95 years. So who was wrong. I do what I'm told in will probably never see 95! If there is any magic way to make a an uncompliant person compliant I don't know it.

WOW! Let me see-there's a nursing shortage--right??? You call in legitimately sick or your kid's sick. You even have notes from a Dr. You do not have a hx of calling in. And these shortsighted morons whose "expertise" is in healthcare terminate a good nurse. There is not hope for US healthcare with this jacka$$es at the helm of the ship!

I used it for 10 years. I used the Climara estrogen patch. I'd had a hyst 10 years earlier so only needed estrogen It was supposed to help prevent osteoporosis, heart disease and relieve menopausal hot flashes etc. Well, it was great in terms of preventing menopausal symptoms. Then the nurses studies came out with the evidence that it didn't help with heart disease or osteoporosis. In fact there was a higher incidence of heart problems. Since I had a family hx of heart problems, this was why I was taking the HRT. I took myself off of the patch 3 years ago and started right in with the hot flashes etc. I also developed a cardiac arrythmia while I was on the patch and high blood pressure. So essentially all the HRT did was delay menopause symptoms until I was 10 years older. My advice: If hot flashes are truly unbearable use the HRT for the shortest time you can and at the lowest dose you can. I think this was another incidence when doctor's and drug companies used woman as guinea pigs.

After having my cap get knocked of by the trapeze into a patient's USED bedpan--I gave up wearing a cap. I never had anyone treat me with less respect because of this.

On behalf of other nurses and the patients who we care for I, for one, thank you for your tenaciousness and tenacity to follow through with this since 2005. You are an inspiration to others, TNNURSE.

No one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to read TNN Nurses posts, Cosmo.

I have a periurethral defect---could that be the word? Kegals do NOT work with this--been doing them for years! I need a laparoscopic Burch Colposuspension.