I don't know why but that statement makes my jaw clench up everytime I hear it.
I had a patient the other day ask me how I was going to insert a foley since "the head is down there, wont that hurt the baby?" For the love god, people .... come on .. 2 HOLES! SERIOUSLY!
and my favorite of all time ...
"Does that machine beep everytime I dilate?" .. this one left me speechless
Please share your "omg, no she didn't say/ask that" quotes
I am so glad I read this thread or I would have nurses rolling their eyes behind MY back. I have been an ER and critical care nurse for about 10 years but I find that I am guilty of saying a phrase that irks all you OB-GYN nurses.
~cringing~.....I have said "take the baby". People ask me all the time when I am due. Instead of getting into details, I say, "well, they are going to take the baby at 36 weeks". I assume that people know I am talking about "taking it" from my uterus as opposed to to the amusement park....or as opposed to me pushing and expelling it out of my uterus around the due date.
I have had to explain to nurses that work in others areas things like intraventricular drains, ICP's, and cardiac output monitoring. They are clueless just like I obviously am in the OB world.. :)
Thank you. I work at a veteran's hospital, and some of experiences are different than my friends that work in the private sector. I rarely have a femal patient, and have not had a pregnant patient since I was in nursing school. When my sister was pregnant I was guilty of saying "take the baby" also.
At my last visit to the chiropractor, we were chatting about his wife's (an acquaintance of mine) three C-sections. He must have said "take the baby" half a dozen times. Luckily I was face down on the table so he didn't see me cringing.
They are "taking my baby tomorrow"..... :chuckle Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Just be sure that they give it back!
Congratulations! I know that this is a little late, but I wish you the best of luck! I know that everything is going to go great for you. Hope you and little kiddo are resting comfortably at this point. Once again, Congratulations! :balloons:
They are "taking my baby tomorrow"..... :chuckle Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Anyway, my c/s is tomorrow at 7:30 am. I am excited, scared, joyful, and sooo tired. It's been a long haul.....I had a stillborn at 37 weeks on 7/31 of last year and this pregnancy was off by only 3 DAYS from last year..making the gestational age of my 2 babies almost exactly the same at time of delivery. The amnio results for lung maturity came out great and this baby has been thriving.
Sorry, I know I am babbling and this is off-subject but I am hyper and sleep deprived. Thanks for bearing with me. :)
You probably won't see this for a while, but congratulations!
I'm really happy for you! And, to your baby...:hbsmiley:
I don't know why but that statement makes my jaw clench up everytime I hear it.
I had a patient the other day ask me how I was going to insert a foley since "the head is down there, wont that hurt the baby?" For the love god, people .... come on .. 2 HOLES! SERIOUSLY!
and my favorite of all time ...
"Does that machine beep everytime I dilate?" .. this one left me speechless
Please share your "omg, no she didn't say/ask that" quotes
I am not a nurse YET...but about 6 months ago i was a pt about to have a baby.. I could not have a epi ( cause of my spine was infused together) and i was in labor for 26 hours and pushed for 5 hours.... The morning after having my baby, some of the nurses that helped in the L&D came into my room and thanked me for not cussing them or calling them any names... The Doc on call was even amazed!!!!!! So I guess they do get cussed out alot.. SO MY HATS OFF TO ALL THE NURSES IN THE L&D FLOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am hoping one day to be a part of it
BETSRN, consider your area VERY lucky. I've love to work in a LDRP situation, but none of the hospitals around here have it. I'm talking about a medium large city in the midwest, containing roughly 1 million people within the city limits. We have 3 level III NICU's, but no one has an LDRP setup. I agree with you, this is a very archaic system. If any of the local hospitals do get an LDRP, it will because of public pressure, not through any original ideas brought by hospital administration.
You don't have to have an LDRP to keep the baby with the mother. That will work in any setting. You just have to have a good manager who can see the need to keep Mom with the baby. Transitioning a baby is no different than transitioning the mother. This whooey about how labor nurses can't care for a baby is ridiculous. They have cared for the baby throughout the entire labor (which is actually far MORE critical than after birth)and now they aren't trained to follow through?
The size of the city the hospital serves has nothing at all to do with the development of a philosophy. It's a matter of updating the philosophy and geting those archaic managers out there to visit places which keep mother and baby together.
I know one thing my Bradley classes recommended was having dad answer about the pain medication. Mom has a code word to give dad that means she is serious about wanting meds. That was she doesn't have to deal with thinking about it whenever someone asks if she wants to go med free.
We had this planned, but I just asked the nurses not to offer me pain meds while I was in labor. If they had my husband had gone ahead and answered no for me like we planned he may have been the one needing pain meds :rotfl:
We have Bradley couples frequently. Regardless of the code words or whatever, Mom can (and often does) change her mind about pain medications. If I get one of those fathers who thnks heis going to run the show (as far as meds go), I just nicely tell him that he is NOT the patient and I will get his wife what SHE wants: not what he dictates.
I wonder how he would like it if you stuck it in a drawer and slammed it? I've always wanted to say that, but of course, have refrained. That's one of those things one would LIKE to say but cannot, for obvious reasons.
I'm just barely coming onto this thread and after reading your comments about your patients, I think you need to seriously find another line of work where you won't be involved with laboring mothers. YESSS I KNOW THIS IS A PLACE TO BE ABLE TO VENT AND I HAVE HAD PTS WHO MAKE ME WANT TO SCREAM TOO!! But one of our main jobs is to also educate the patients and answer their questions regardless of how stupid they may seem. I was once told that there are no stupid questions, only the ones you don't ask. When it comes to patient care, there are no stupid questions!!!!! :uhoh21:
I think maybe my all time favorite that I have heard here is the one where the girl asks if the machine beeps every time she dilates. I have to admit that I have never been asked that one! Made my day. That is one of the dumber ones. Some of the other things people ask are within the realm of possibility but that one is really funny!!
No you are not. Your wife/girlfriend is pregnant, both of you are expecting a baby.
I hear this a lot from casual work acquaintances not just patients. Having a baby is a joyous occasion that everyone would certainly want to share the happy news. I just wish the father of baby would say "My wife and I are expecting in baby." I think it diminishes the womens' hard work of pregnancy and delivery when men announce that they are pregnant.
I had a patient a few months ago who ended up with wn unexpected section due to an undiagnosed breech. On the way back from the OR, this clueless dad asks if his girlfriend can go back to work on Monday (this was Friday). These people are not only clueless, but scary!
An update on this one.........I follow this family in the community. The baby had a long spell of vomiting and lost two pounds (only weighed about 7 to begin with). The (same clueless) father thought "this was normal." By the time they took the baby to the pediatrician, she was almost dead: literally. She was admitted (after coding) and found to have pyloric stenosis, which ws repaired. She is now doing very well and growing like a weed! However, of course DCF is now involved as well as me. These are sad cases. It always amazes me that there are people functioning at such a low level. They mean well, no doubt, but........................... Ask me if Dad works........no, he does not. Poor Mom works her you-know-what off,though.
Sorry for the rant, but sometimes it really gets to me. You want to take these guys by the throat and ask them if they have any pride whatsoever.
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Thank you. I work at a veteran's hospital, and some of experiences are different than my friends that work in the private sector. I rarely have a femal patient, and have not had a pregnant patient since I was in nursing school. When my sister was pregnant I was guilty of saying "take the baby" also.