Add another thing to the NICU roller coaster... While visiting today I noticed a small tuberculin size syringe with colostrum in Owen's incubator. I thought it was odd because I never collected mine in anything less than a 5 cc syringe. When I picked it up and looked at it, there was another woman's name label on it! WTF! So calmly I ask the nurse what she was using it for and she explained that she had used it to put a little colostrum on his pacifier. I then said, "well this is not my name on here". She took the syringe from me and looked at it for a few seconds then ripped off the labels, put them in her pocket, threw the syringe in the trash and walked away. Now I am the type of person who dislikes confrontation, but I was pissed off at this point and went straight to the charge nurse.
So what ended up happening is they checked the other mom's record and fortunately she did not have any positive lab results, but they are going to call her to see if she will come in for more blood work along with having my blood checked again (not sure why). They are treating it like it's a big deal, which it is. The risk is really low, but this whole thing is really upsetting. I mean, the nurse did not follow procedure and made a careless mistake and then tried to cover it up.
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WTF!!!!! The bolded part made me livid for you. I wonder if the other baby got your milk and that's why they are having you tested too. Please update us on this!
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Alice, I hope everything is perfect with the other mother's b/w. I would make it a point to NEVER allow that nurse to take care of your boys.
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Wow... I am speechless. Keep us posted on the outcome.
I would be really angry too! Apparently this is pretty common because it almost happened in our NICU too. In the middle of my set of labels they printed for me to put on the bottles I noticed that one label had someone else's name on it. If I hadn't noticed that baby would have gotten my breastmilk in a bottle with his name on the label so noone would have thought anything of it.
It made me nervous that some other woman could have one of my name labels on her milk...very scary.
I have no words. I am so sorry. The nurse should be held accountable.
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that is crazy. i would be livid!
FWIW, i imagine they are taking your b/w in order to protect themselves. that way they know if you have any issues in case something happens to your LO and you try to say it was because of the breastmilk. they will have a record of whether you have anything or not and whether it was possible that your breastmilk was the problem instead of the other mom's.
SERIOUSLY?? she didn't fall over apologizing? she ripped the labels off & threw it away?? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr