Help Me! I'm STUCK in OB!!!

[ChicknJ]

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Oh my freaking gawd... that's funny, Yes, please send em through the car wash first. We had 3 admitted by the end of the night with critical etoh levels.


Iowa Roo Mom, I work ICU, I always said NONONO to OB, I would keel over, yes they are cute, no I don't want to work there. Give me pt's I can fill up with Haldol, Morphine, Diprivan, Vent em and slap the restraints on... all's well.

Ohhh and the nursing goal of the night????
Maintain integrity of the R-bag after all that Lactulose.

 

[Iowa Roo Mom]

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I worked Med/Surg for 4 years before I took the "support" job.... Our OB is a "closed unit", so we RARLY get assigned up there, but we had a baby boom over the holiday weekend, so I had to go "support" them

I'm off now 'till Thursday, and I am going to spend those days working on the coop to help me re-COOP-erate

Thanks to everyone for their support and opinions, A healthy debate is always welcome on my threads, as long as everyone is "adult" about it!!!

 

[BarkerChickens]

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That's a lot of 4th of July babies! I'd imagine that OB and the ER are exact opposites and that if you like one, you wouldn't like the other.

My guess anyway since I am not in nursing. I think my problem would be that I'd want to hold all the babies!

 

[b.hromada]

I love babies!! I'd think it would be wonderful to be around the little ones. Holding them, rocking them. Look at it this way, you can get your baby fix, and give 'em back to mom!

 

[rancher hicks]

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Well just be glad you don't have to give birth to them all.

"having kids is like being pecked to death by a duck"

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

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When we worked at a preschool, we would have an "adopt a granny" program where we would have visits from the nursing home and story hours read by the grannies (my granny ran the nursing home for 25 years & our building and thiers were nextdoor). Many of the grannies in our program never had visits by thier own grandchildren, and they loved coming to read the stories, and visiting the benches we put up around the playground.

Now I agree children aren't for everyone, my sister doesn't want them, would rather not have the responsibility, and put herself on 5yr birth control, so she could have the freedom she wants. My aunt, who would be a wonderful mother, her husband got into an accident a month after they married, and had a vertabrae crushed. He needs help to bathe, toilet, and everything else. They love each other very much, but she says she doesn't have the time to devote to them both, so no children for her. Again a well thought out decision.

After losing my daughter in a car accident, before she was born, I've been lucky enough to have 2 sons, there is nothing I wouldn't do or pay for them, both were planned and very much loved. All 3 of us made different choices, but they are all equally valid, and we are all equally pleased with how it worked out.

I'm sorry to hear you lost your daughter. I know how terrible it is to lose a child. I am sure your boys bring you great comfort.

 

[saddina]

I adore the boys, they're both a bit off the norm, but I'm pretty sure that's how we know they're ours. Evan wants to work for NASA and is slamming his way thru school at a crazy rate, Erik taught himself how to read at 3, and tested into 2nd grade in the fall, took the test 2 days before his 5th birthday. You can pick them out in any room, Erik will be spelling words outloud and asking if he's right, and Evan will be explaining the multiverse theory to anyone who sits still.

 

[BarkerChickens]

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Wow! Sounds like you've got some very smart boys! You and your DH must be extremely proud of them!

 

[saddina]

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Wow! Sounds like you've got some very smart boys! You and your DH must be extremely proud of them!

We love them very much, they had the "luck" to be born as we were both doing teaching coursework, so we had the ultra enriched enviroments, restricted TV time, taught them multiple languages, the works. Now as a teacher it drives me nuts when I hear "you're lucky your boys are smart" like the brain fairy visited one night.