Hi Guys
If you remember I was telling you about the snoring twin-mum who will be staying on the antenatal ward for along period of time??
I suspected she was lonely and this is turning out to be true. Now she has followed a lady round to the postnatal side and is visiting her. I had a quiet word with the postnatal lady who said she really dosnt want to be visited by her but didnt want to be rude to her either as she felt she was a lonely lady who needed company.
So she got asked to leave the bay (by myself) so the lady I was looking after could rest. This was entirely true and my lady wasnt feeling very well so hopefully she can rest up abit more without this visitor until she is discharged. Obviously I feel for the lonely lady but the other woman was genuinely getting poorly with over-doing it, and I had genuine conerns over her and how she was doing.
I met another new twin mum today- 2 girls-all healthy. She had a c section because the first one was in a breech presentation and the second one was transverse. This is exactly the same presentation I had with my set of twins at 38 weeks and she smiled when I told her we were exactly the same!
I wasnt looking after her but answered a callbell and she wanted pain releif. During the shift, I gave her a couple doses of oromorph to help control her pain since she could take paracetomol but was allergic to NSAIDs and therefore diclofenic was out of the question. She needed something to keep her pain in control and described the pain as 5/10 when laying on the bed but when trying to get up and mobilise- since this was day 1 - the pain became 10/10. Im not so sure she will be mobilising much on regular oromorph but she will probably have a good rest and get comfortable and tomorrow we can start trying to get the pain relief reduced abit.
She was breast feeding one of them when I saw her, and she did this individually and she held her baby very well. We talked about having twins and she told me that her neighbour has also just had twins and they are 17 months old. I said that she had got some advantages then because she undoubtably would have spent her pregnancy watching the neighbour and seeing how she coped and having some good advice right on her doorstep. It was their first children and Dad was just beaming at his lovely daughters.
It was a lovely quiet late shift to work and I was able to switch the lights off in the bay at 2050 so the women could get some sleep. In ALL the time I have been there, I have never managed to get those lights off and get the women resting in a quiet restful ward that early.
Nighty Night ladies!
