NICU?

Right now I am on peds rotation..the first few days made me decide it was not for me. Although, this week I did two days inpatient, which was really fun, and two days in the NICU. I love the NICU and I got to see births from a different side. The NICU is sad though and hard. Today, I got to watch a birth in which the mother had no epidural and it was so nice. The mom was fantastic and baby was great..well not exactly. She started bradying down and starting grunting and retracting..the nurses freaked out about it. I think she was fine and just needed time (and two of the NICU nurses agreed with me and told me they were embarrassed that the neonatologist was even called about it). I understand why they freaked out but if you are giving her oxygen and watching her you don't need to freak out about it..all her other stats were fine! Hmm...