What baby catches you every time?

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

I always have a soft spot for trached kids or Neuro kids. I always swear I am not going to primary or associate nurse another one because they can literally suck the life out of you, but I can never resist for long. My one friend loves gut kids, especially the short gut ones. Another one always wants the drug kids. She has the patience of a saint!

Who catches your heart?

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The cardiac kids.. It's amazing how they can function so well while being blue 24/7. No matter how many times that chest gets cracked they just keep on trucking.

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Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.

I get really attached to the trisomy kids. Which is painless, usually, with the 21s, but not so much with the 13s and 18s. And the single 9 that I had.

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I love NAS babies. They're always just so beautiful and sweet. I have all the patience in the world for them because it is SO not their fault that they're so fussy. I hate it when I have a heavy assignment though and can't give them the attention they need. I also hate it when they have to go home with clearly unfit parents...Not all of them fall in that category, but I've unfortunately seen many that do :(

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Specializes in MSN, FNP-BC.

Downs Syndrome gets me every time! I LOVE taking care of those babies!!!

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Downs Syndrome gets me every time! I LOVE taking care of those babies!!!

I always feel like an awful person when I have a downs baby, but I just don't enjoy taking care of them. I'll cuddle them all day long, they're sweet as can be, but they drain me when I'm responsible for them. I'm so glad there are nurses who get so much joy from having them.

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Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.

One of my favorite 21s, the day she was discharged...the mother made a tie-dye shirt for the baby that said "I

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Specializes in NICU.

Surgical babies! they are such fighters and go through so much! I love em!! Love DS babes too :inlove:

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Specializes in NICU.

I seem to fall for the ones with a colostomy. My last set of primaries (twins) one of them had an iliostomy, a shunt for hydrocephalus, and also vocal cord paralysis. I fell in love with him the second I saw him. He just had to go through so much. His twin was just a feeder grower by the time I got them. I spent a few weeks with twin A until he went home, but I was with twin B for 2 months. I developed a good relationship with their mom and I continue to talk to her multiple times a week and she sends me pictures of the boys. But I always seem to go for the colostomy babies, and ones that have some neuro issues.

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I have a thing for those babies that had nothing wrong until a perinatal event....abruption, uterine rupture, shoulder dystocia.... We almost never get to keep them which is fine, I like the stabilization period awaiting the transfer team then helping them. it might be because we don't deliver patients with big problems diagnosed prenatally because we are small with only a level 2 designation. They had all that potential, were 100% normal and in a flash their life and brain is in danger. I really wish we got more updates on these babies after discharge.

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Specializes in NICU.

Kids with multiple congenital anomalies always grab my heart. They have a lot of issues, but are interesting and something about them just pulls me in, they are so beautiful in their own way. Lots of these kiddos have families who don't show much and I love that I can be there for them :).

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23 weekers. I love peanuts. I love admitting 23 weekers and the hustle and bustle of "sick kids." I get attached to the ELBWs.

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