'It can still be beautiful,' says Shonna Carter, a registered nurse at Manhattan's Lenox Hill hospital.
is now a phrase that the American public is talking more about, maybe because of the coronavirus, but as a nurse it’s something you’re attuned to in a different way.
Depending on what stage of labor your patient is in, you’re kind of there to support them, give them all the options that are available to them. The little known fact of most delivering first-time moms is that your doctor will not be there most of the time, until you’re ready to push the baby out, like you break water and push a couple times and a baby comes out. That’s the myth of TV and movies.
After delivery, our second patient has arrived, and during our downtime we support other nurses to care for the newborns they delivered. We take their temperature, monitor their vital signs. There’s a lot of supporting parents, too: reminding veteran moms how to breastfeed if that’s what they want to do. Sometimes it’s the first time they’ve changed a diaper or even held a newborn, so we start with the basics.
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