preemie mommies please take my poll

mommamorris

interested in your experiences...

hailie

I voted! I wonder if parents of full-termers have to watch the shaken baby video...that was AWFUL!

mommamorris

thanks for the vote!

they actually had a counselor come in and talk to me after my c-section and tell me not to shake my baby! (i wasn't even taking visitors yet!)

and i've literally gotten 5 pamphlets/flyers, and been talked to by 3 other professionals. it's ironic too, because the video seemed to espouse that it's an accident, and that it can happen to anyone... which makes me wonder if it's so sudden, and accidental, will a pamphlet help me?

here at our hospital everyone has to watch it... even the termie moms.

SWMcFarland

Yes in response to full termers watching the shaken baby video.  It is a requirement before discharge.  I had to watch it with a bunch of folks being discharged WITH their babies. 

lemen99

Are the preemies usually readmitted for RSV?  Feeding issues? or just various things? I'm just curious.

 I don't know if I should answer the poll.  DS is only 8 months old (5 months adj) but has not been readmitted so far.

kamcfarlane

we didn't have a specific shaken baby video, but every.single.thing the hospital gave us (discharge papers, breastfeeding info, everything related or not) had "never shake your baby" written all over it. everywhere. it was a bit of overkill.

FutureMrsDenman

I'm going to be really interested in the results.  At my NICU anyway (in the heart of the Med Center in Houston, TX), the majority of the preemie babies were born prematurely to parents who were on drugs or were *young*.  It was a large NICU (Level II and Level III) with around 90 babies total (not all preemies for sure, but most were).  There were several parents who almost never came to the NICU, or who did come the NICU to see their kids, but were clueless or reckless about it (came in with smoke on their clothes ... reeking).  Our NICU nurses called CPS on at least 2 different sets of paretns I know of during our stay.  I would be willing to believe that a lot of those babis were readmitted to the hospital because their parents were not like those of us on this board.  We are a subset of preemie parents ... the best of them ... and I would thin our readmittance rates would be lower than the general public's rate of preemie readmittance simply because we are super involved, caring, loving, parents who aren't druggies, who don't continue to (or never did) smoke despite having a preemie, etc.

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s.s.girl

FutureMrsDenman:

I'm going to be really interested in the results.? At my NICU anyway (in the heart of the Med Center in Houston, TX), the majority of the preemie babies were born prematurely to parents who were on drugs or were *young*.? It was a large NICU (Level II and Level III) with around 90 babies total (not all preemies for sure, but most were).? There were?several parents who almost never came to the NICU, or who did come the NICU to see their kids, but were clueless or reckless about it (came in with smoke on their clothes ... reeking).? Our NICU nurses called CPS on at least 2 different sets of paretns I know of during our stay.? I would be willing to believe that a lot of those babis were readmitted to the hospital because their parents were not like those of us on this board.? We are a subset of preemie parents ... the best of them ... and I would thin our readmittance rates would be lower than the general public's rate of preemie readmittance simply because we are super involved, caring, loving, parents who aren't druggies, who don't continue to (or never did) smoke despite having a preemie, etc.

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I agree with all of this. I can't answer the poll because my babies are only 4 months old but I was surprised and saddened at the babies whose parents never called or never came by. There were also several moms who came in smelling like smoke which just made me mad because the smell was awful. Another couple broke up or something strange so there was all kinds of drama surrounding that, (loud drama). I really did try my best to ignore all of that and focus on my own babies.?

mommamorris

great point... i hadn't thought about that before....

our little bird was at tripler, which is an army hospital. so the parents are mostly all together, and mostly supportive and involved with their kiddos. i talked to some of the travel nurses and they said that in public hospitals they ran into a lot more of the "absentee parents"... also, at children's hospitals they had many parents who lived hours and hours away and had to go back to work, so they were "unwillingly absent"... (of course, they had a drug nicu as well... sad, sad, sad.)

in our nicu they made you leave if you smelled. which makes me happy... i CAN'T stand smoke. ESPECIALLY since they know most of the preemies have compromised lungs... just selfishness. and it was parents too- not just the distant relatives or friends...