Zoey is displaying a yellow glow as her first fashion statement and her "catwalk" is a bilirubin phototherapy bed. She's at home on the runway and is turned from back to tummy after every feeding among the watchful eyes of the worried parents and grandparents. Still she's the most beautiful baby ever to grace the bilirubin platform. We plan to progress to the crib and various other conveyances in the next week.
Unfortunately, today's medicine (I irritatingly sigh) dropped the ball with communication on the how to's to our young parents. And I must say, no other parents I have EVER seen, (and I've seen a lot) have prepared themselves so intensely and with such love and expectation for their newborn child. These days moms and babies are being released from the hospital with inadequate practice and instruction. Modern medicine attempts to treat everything on an outpatient basis causing havoc and stressful trips to labs and specialists all in the name of saving dollars. I've always questioned if it's good patient care. And now it's become a personal event. What is more important than getting families off to the best possible starts as each new life comes into the world? Health care is dropping the ball. (Yes, I'm a former nursery/labor and delivery nurse -- so I'm on my soapbox.) My hope for the future is that we somehow find a way to improve our health care delivery to all ages through all specialties with reasonable cost.
Our Zoey is a real trooper despite this bump in the road and is doing her part to learn all those newborn things like nursing, bottle feeding, burping and staying awake long enough to eat and she's bonding to her family because of all the love and support she's getting. You can really feel the love around her. I'm so proud to be a part of this and so proud of Zoey's parents.
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Agreed! To be fair, we asked for an early discharge because we wanted to come home and mom and baby were both ready to leave.
All I ask is to be fully informed. Judy and I are well educated and curious to know how to do things well. We'll make this expectation more clear to our doctor on our next visit. (note: we still like our doctor very much and will continue to work with him unless events like this continue).
Good to have a nurse in the family.
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