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My Visit to the NICU
I brought my preemie to visit the NICU and her primary nurse this week. We got to see one of the OTs and another nurse I knew as well, and it was quite an experience for me. This is not the first time I’ve returned to visit the NICU. I’ve been back twice before with [...]
Nutrition Cart – Love it!
In the NICU where my baby stayed, a nutritionist would bring a cart of goodies around the unit a couple of times every day to offer to the parents. I’m pretty sure the nutrition cart saved my life! I was pumping a ton and living off of the cafeteria and vending machines, and I was [...]
Funny Scrubs Story
So, when I first arrived at the NICU where my 27-weeker had been lifeflighted to, I was recovering from a difficult c-section. I had no pants to wear that were comfortable, and I was too skinny for maternity pants and too fat for pre-pregnant pants… you know how it is. So, I was told by [...]
In the NICU too long when…
Just for fun, let’s see how many ideas we can come up with! I’ll start: You know you’ve been in the NICU too long when… You can identify every alarm when it goes off and you know what it’s for. You’re allowed to adjust your baby’s oxygen when she starts to desat. You’re perfectly comfortable [...]
NICU Nurses Good and Bad
I sometimes wonder if NICU nurses realize how huge of an impact they have on the parents’ NICU experience. There does not have to be a lot of interaction between parents and nurses if it’s not encouraged by the parents, but even still the attitude, gentleness, and concern a nurse has for each baby is [...]
OTs: My Very Best Friends!
The OTs, or Occupational Therapists, were my very best friends in the NICU. For one thing, there were only three of them in my NICU and as soon as I started learning to breastfeed my baby I got help from one of them almost every single day. They were incredible. They were encouraging, helpful, informative, [...]
NICU Nurses
There are many part-time and full-time nurses who rotate through the NICU. In my 94 days in the NICU with my preemie girl I probably saw 40-50 different nurses who cared for my baby, or more; it seemed like more. You must remember that full-time for a nurse is three or four 12-hour shifts, and [...]
