This is the Giraffe omnibed^^---i.e. a glorified fishtank for littles that haven't finished growing yet. Greenhouse, glass box, isollette, incubator...You name it, its the same thing and No this is not a baby from my hospital....you think I'm gonna break HIPPA and lose my liscence/job. pshaa no thanks. Not this holiday at least, we got bills and we need mo money! mo money! Anywho... Sorry about the tangent, back to the box of babies> Crib and crib.
<<Another Isolette These are other boxes we "store" our babies in. Metal crib (for the full term kids that are sick and need lots of equipment and tubing, normal crib for our babies that can hold their temperature by themselves and are working on feeding or other issues (full term babies get this is the full term nursery) and the "old" isolette are the pics above.
Boxes hold babies in my world, thats how it works. Its for their safety and healing. They get overstimulated soooo easily and it makes them sick. They get cold and it makes them sick. They hear noises or alarms and it makes things worse. They thrive on warm dark and quiet (like alot of adults I know). Meanwhile I was at work last night pondering the littles we keep in cages and why our unit was so empty and quiet and parentless. Duh holiday! I don't have kids but for me holidays are spent with family and these babes all have family. They all have parents. But if their parents were with other family(I understand, it's gotta be soooooo tough to have a NICU babe, I don't know if I ever would survive emotionally), Anyway, If they were with their family and I couldn't be with mine, there is no better place for me to be than loving on some babes (caged/boxed babes to be exact). I snuggled my babes extra last night in hopes that I could fill in as their surrogate mommies for the night because noone should be alone (in a box) on a holiday.
The second part of my rant is my confusion on the medical profession. I guess it's because I was "raised" as a nurse in nursing school to do my hands on or clinical learning and skill set stuff DURING my classroom stuff. Doctors (not that I'm discrediting them, don't be offended. Seriously, stop it, freedom of speech folks, go with it) do all their classroom crap first for 4 years and then are supposed to remember said information all 4 years and then use it the next four years, the glorious period of their lives called residency. I am a visual and hands on learner, you can tell me a thousand times that If a baby is cold their blood sugar will crash and their oxygen needs will go up (full term babes too folks, keep your babes warm, it's cold out!) but until I see it happen, I don't remember that crap. That being said, I think residents have the same struggle, along with several other struggles, but thats another post, another day. But where I am getting with this is, I have always known I wanted to work with babies or mommas or kids in the nursing profession, even since I was little. I was changing baby doll diapers at 3 years old folks, watch and learn from mom on little siblings, babysitting ect. I have been around kids and babies my whole life and they are no mystery to me.....Diapers included. Not difficult, place diaper under babe, pull other half through legs, use handy velcro to fasten in place. Common sense leads us to know to put it on snuggly so the contents dont spill. I'm grossing you out sorry.You wouldn't put the lid half way onto a gallon of milk and then sit it on it's side in the fridge...common sense. Tiny diapers work the same way as big ones. Tubes and lines are scary, tiny sick babies are scary (for most) that is NOT what i'm talking about. we are talking normal getting healthy, no lines but 3 monitor cords babies.
now, residents and med students are divided up by specialty of the kind of doctor they want to be, in the case pediatrics or pediatricians or neonatologist ect.... this means we get about 30 new "doctors" or doctor wannabes in our unit each year and they have to come assess the babies and learn about them and go to rounds and then they get to *GASP* write orders for meds and feeds and blood sugars ect (all while being watched like a hawk by the attendings and NNP's (neonatal nurse practioners))
BUT when they first start out they don't get an orientation (which I think is so unfair to them.....and us nurses) and I have been asked countless times how to open the doors on the "box". Lord help us, a monkey could see the button on the door and press it
<<See the latch on the side of the door, it only moves one way and then the door pops open TA-DA! You did it, you opened the box to get to the baby!!!!! YAY!! Step one, DONE. You know how they said that einstein would get lost trying to find his house, same rule applies, just because you are brilliant with a text book doesn't mean the lord gave ya awhole lot of common sense, now lets not get it twisted lots of these people can figure it out but the select few I just stare at with my mouth on the ground as they fumble with it and then fumble with the diaper like they have never seen one and don't know HOW to take an arm pit temperature. AND THEY ARE PEDIATRIC DOCTORS! Whatevs, I'm done ranting, I just think its funny. So here's to all of the people in the world with common sense, the lord blessed ya. I took college algebra thrice because I'm bad at teaching myself math from the internet, but I can still get by juuuuuuust fine. Bottom line, get the box open, you get the cute baby! and snuggle those babes, snuggle, because it can't be fun living in a box or a fishtank and life is precious, especially on the holidays, cherish it!!!!
hey you...of course i remember you, silly goose.
ReplyDeletethanks for your sweet words. they mean a lot.
keep the posts a'commin'!