Picture Post: NICU

This morning spent very little time in OPD - had plenty patients to round on (and send home) - including a few who'd been in false labor! Just wrapped up with that and got called to drain a paralabial abscess, then help with a D&C. Last night's call night was rough for Jessica and Susan - two D&C's and a fetal demise delivery - so when I came in everyone was getting blood and CBC's were being checked left and right.

Took some pictures today of our babies - this is the NICU crew right now. To your left you'll see the WHOLE NICU in one picture. That's it - three warmers and some IV tubing. We have four babies today - yesterday we had five, but I sent one home.

And to the right you'll see our babies:
The one on the pink blanket is Baby Rosemary, who's the little 1200-gram baby that I keep expecting to be missing one morning. So far she's hanging on and doing all right.




The one in the yellow is Baby Genits, who I drained an IV site abscess on yesterday. She should get to go home soon.





And the two in the crib are Baby Wendy-2 (Baby Wendy-1 is out with Mom already) and Baby I-can't-remember-right-now, who are our feeder-growers. They're both doing really well and will transition to just breastmilk soon.