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

[Iowa Roo Mom]

Ugh! I'm stuck working OB/Nursery tonigh

I'd rather have rusty icepicks shoved under my toenails!!! I have a phobia of babies... Please don't get me wrong- I

babies! As long as I'm not involved. Well... tonight, I am involved. I am actually going to have to *feed* them at 11. *FEED* them! Ahh!!!

I'm going to try to spend as much time in my hole in the wall as I can, hopefully the mommies will sleep well. Wish me luck!!!

*Oh how I wish I was back in ER!*

 

[Chickie Mamma]

Good Luck!! Feed them well. I wouldn't let my baby go when first born. Maybe some of the mommies will come get them for the night..

 

[PIO-PIO]

try to have fun. I'm at work tonight too but I'm in the lab and it being the 4th, lots of ER patients=lots of ETOH testing. lol at least someone is having fun.

 

[Imp]

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What's more american than ETOH on the 4th.

Imp- Isn't it like the law

 

[Iowa Roo Mom]

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Oh don't worry, I

babies! I dearly love them, I am just scared to death of them! I am afraid I will break them or something. I mean, this is why I do not have children of my own! I do not want kids of my own!!! I've *seen* what happens when a baby is born, and I like my body just the way it is

If any of you are parents of teenage girls- show them a video of a vag delivery- it is the best birth control ever.

But as for tonight, I am going to feed them, burp them, and love them. And then, after that, I am going to go home and have some ETOH of my own

 

[thebritt]

My mom was a nurse in the neo-natal care ward before I was born (I'm now 46). She said she never lost a baby on her watch. It wasn't easy - she had nightmares etc.
Good Luck... You'll be OK!

 

[Judy]

I hear you. Anything but the nursery, please. I didn't have a phobia, but also didn't love them, to say the least. I was able to do what needed to be done -- but don't tell the babies that. We were supposed to feed on a schedule. Not this kid, they got fed when they were hungry. Fortunately, the last shift and next shift usually had the same attitude. When I had my one and only, I raised heck at staff til they brought him into the room with me, which only took a few hours. Might have had something to do with the fact that I also worked there. They didn't want me to nurse for the first 24 hours, either. Yeah, right.

I don't get people who don't want the baby with them from birth on, or at least from a few hours after birth on. I don't want the kid bonding with the night shift nurse.

 

[Thomas423]

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ETOH ??

 

[blossom hen]

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ETOH ??

EtOH, used in medical terms, is abbreviation for ethanol (alcohol)

 

[Thomas423]

Ohhh.....thank you. I always learn so much on BYC.