The one with the poo.

Okay, I get it. I get why parents can be obsessed with their baby's poops.

I spent today's clinical at the newborn nursery, and having changed many poopy diapers, all I want to tell my friends now is the many kind of poops I saw. I mean, did you know that a cutie patootie baby can generate a poop of gross epic proportion?! And it that color?! And in that form?!! And that often?! Who would've thunk it?!

I also believe my kidlet invented a new game called "Oops, I did it again!", in which I change the dirty diaper, turn around for a second to dump it in the trash, only to find upon return that the kidlet has pooped--again--and peed--again. Anyway, today was a good one--a really good one--aside from how many times my baby pooped.

Oh, one more thing, counting newborn's heart rate is another story. It sounds easy when they say "You count for 6 seconds then times 1o", not so easy when heart rate goes 123456789101112131415 in 6 seconds.... I think I lost track and had to redo it several times before getting it right. Oh, and I gave erythromycin eye ointment and vitamin K shot. Yay!

And by now I am also tone deaf to newborn cries....

Scribbles from a bored student

If I could take pictures without it being obvious to the instructor, you would see both friends on my left and right texting the outside world on their phones. Neither of us paying attention. Such model students are we.....

Anyway,

I shadowed in the OR yesterday and in level II nursery today. I put in my first Foley, scrubbed the patient with disinfectant, fed and changed a premiee, it was an interesting experience overall. I definitely enjoy working with the preemies the most, wasn't too crazy about the OR. Well, I guess being a scrub nurse could be fun, getting to watch the procedure up close and being occupied throughout rather than being the circulating nurse.

I also had the chance to walked around the NICU and talked to the nurses there as well. That was the best part of today because I've always wanted to be a NICU nurse, so having to see and hear about what it was like was great. The nurses there were such a riot, they're so funny and wonderful too, I love them.

'Tis a fabulous weekend, I hope yours is/was too. :)