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We had a mom come in on her own for decreased fetal movement for one day.

The nurse got heart tones in the 120s and had mom change. 2 minutes later mom was on the monitor and heart tones were in the 60s and stayed there despite position change. Attending in house OB did US saw they were indeed baby heart tones (not mom's and a demise) and we did a crash c/s.

By the time we were in the OR (down the hall) we couldnt get heart tones.

Baby was out in 11 minutes from the time heart tones were found to be in the 60's, 20 minutes from presenting on our unit.

Baby was born without heartbeat or respirations but had an apgar of 6 by 5 minutes. Awesome neo who did a great job.

We are all waiting to see how baby does, but after the maid thread I couldn't help but think how far from the truth that is.

Mom named baby Jesus.

I was praying very hard the whole time.

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Specializes in Maternal - Child Health.

What a wonderful example of teamwork, from your unit staff to the office nurse who obviously did a great job of teaching this mom the warning signs of complications with her pregnancy!

Congratulations to you all, and prayers that the family will take Jesus home healthy and hapy!

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Oh my gosh...I have chills after reading that. How amazing that must have been to have seen that baby resuscitated; and horrific in the meantime. Hope he does well; please update.

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Reading that makes me feel good.

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Specializes in CNA for 5 years, LPN for 5 years.

I've got goosebumps and tears in my eyes. It's so nice to hear good stories, isn't this why we do what we do?

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Specializes in Psych, Med/Surg, LTC.

So glad the baby lived! What a happy ending to a scarey story.

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Great story! To God be the Glory

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Wow, what a scarey experience. I am a graduate nurse (May 2006) and your story just about had me in tears. The story reinterates how important it is for all of us to work together as a team and how things could go from bad to oh s**t in a matter of minutes. I hope that this will be a good outcome for mom and Jesus.

P.S. Pray for me I'm taking the beast in early August.:uhoh3:

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Great job!!!! I am trying to figure out how best to start crash C/S on my unit when OR is not in house. Your case just reinforces why it is so necessary.

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That same shift we had a section going on in the morning and another patient's heart tones tanked ( she was 420 pounds, preeclamptic)

We had to have one of the RNs watch vitals in the section going on so the anesthesiologist could put this lady under. Luckily it was change of shift and we had two techs on and lots of nurses! The next anesthesiologist was there in 15 minutes but it seemed forever

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Specializes in NICU, Psych, Education.

Sounds like a hairy shift! For me, clock-out might have been Miller Time (or margarita time, or your poison of choice). :beer:

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We all headed out to the Mexican restuarant across the street when we were done with our 12 hour shift!!

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