Are in the room during delivery (assuming its a natural delivery, not a c/s)? Sometimes when I watch a baby story there are like 5 nurses in the room. I dont understand why there are so many there, I thought there were only supposed to be 2, nurse for mom, nurse for baby. Am I missing something?
Re: how many nurses...
It depends on the "model" there labor ad delivery is set up to follow. Most do use the 2 nurses one for mom and one for baby. Another very common is 3 nurses one to attend to mom, on to attend to baby and then a "float" who is charting things. It is alot easier to have the 3rd in there to chart then have mom's nurse have to chart and attend to mom. I've also seen it set up where there is just 1 nurse for mom and baby and then a second nurse who is a charter/runner.
Alot of times on a baby story they are at teaching hospitals is why there are so many extra people in there. I'm in nursng school and during our L&D rotation I was in on a birth that the OB was in there, 2 residents, 2 nurses, myself another student and our instructor. The section I saw there were 2 anestheologists, 3 nurses, 2 surg techs, the dr and 2 students.
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I had about 5 or 6 nurses in my room the first time around and the doctor but it was a high risk pregnancy and a very hard delivery because he got stuck and I pushed for 2 hours. The nurses were incredibly sweet though so they didnt bother me. One of them actually kissed me on the forehead after I finally got him out.
I had 2 nurses for me (usually it's just one but it was the night shift and not many people on the floor so I got two). I know for sure the NICU had a nurse for the baby (he was a tad early) but I honestly don't remember if he had more than just the one.
Keep in mind, the doctor usually has a tech that hands her the supplies so that's another person as well. I didn't even know that until looking back at pictures!
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For us it's usually 1 or 2.
I had 5 because something was wrong they suspected. It was his cord that was around his neck, but everything was ok. I delivered naturally.
It depends on the hospital. I work in L&D on the baby side of things as a neonatal nurse. There are usually two nurses, one each for mom and baby, then a scrub tech or additional nurse in all of our deliveries. It is the same for C-Sections.
The nurse for the baby is just that - dedicated to the baby. The scrub tech or nurse is there to assist the Dr with instruments, etc. and the other L&D nurse is there for the mom and to assist with cord blood, placenta, etc.