Ep. 58 | Carly Cooper, RN & Joley Sumner, RN, Pregnancy & Birth

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- When it comes to welcoming a new baby, having the right care and support from those first moments in labor through recovery can make all the difference for moms and families. Welcome to what Brings You In Today, a podcast from SMC health. I'm Kara Hope Rockwell and I'm Erica Bennett, and today we are here with Joely Sumner and Carly Cooper, who are registered nurses within our women's and Children's department here at SMC health.

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And so really, they're going to talk about all the fun things that have the best moments that happen at MK health, which is delivering babies. So Carly and Joely, what brings you in today? We're here to talk about delivering babies at SMC health. All right. Well, let's start by just telling introducing you to our listening audience. So if you can tell us a little bit about your background, how you got here.

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Unknown
Okay. I'm Carly Cooper. Like Erica said, I am a labor and delivery nurse. I have I started out in postpartum. I worked a year and a half in postpartum first, and then I decided I was ready to, like, spread my wings a little bit. So then I moved to labor and delivery, and I have been there for four and a half years, so I have a total of six years with SMC health.

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Unknown
Awesome. I'm Julie Sumner. I started in labor and delivery. I did a little stint over there. I don't it wasn't very long, but then I moved to postpartum and then recently moved to the nursery and then back to postpartum for this mother baby transition. And I've been here since like 2018. So this is the only hospital I've ever worked at home.

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Unknown
Really enjoy it. I love that. So what led you both into nursing and why did you choose women and children? So. Nursing. I just fell in love with helping people. Just growing up, I always wanted to help somebody anyway I could. And. And through my grandfather's, help journey with cancer and everything like that, I knew that I wanted to become a nurse because I felt like they just made a big impact on on just a community, the patient and everyone involved.

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Unknown
And then when I went to nursing school, I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I thought I wanted to do pediatrics, and then I decided maybe not pediatrics. So then I just decided to stick my foot in women and children. And I fell in love and have it moved since. So cool. I dropped out of business management because I was like, yeah, I know you know me.

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Unknown
And somewhere along the way I was like, you know, it sounds fun. Let's go be a nurse. My step mom's a nurse, so I've always enjoyed, like, just any conversation she would have about that. And in clinical. My first day in labor and delivery, I got to hold a leg and we were delivering a baby, and I was like, oh, this is it.

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Unknown
I'm hooked. Yeah, like. And then it just kind of took off from there, like, I know exactly where I wanted to be. It's not something that most people get to see, right? Like, and y'all get to see it multiple times a day. How does that feel? Like, what does that feel like to you seeing that so consistently? It's just so like it's just a blessing honestly.

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Unknown
You know, to be able to walk with a mom and the rest of the family like you, really, after the delivery, you feel like you've all become a family. You've all intertwined with each other, you've all gotten close, and it's really a blessing to, like, be able to see these babies enter the world every day. You know, some days are harder than others, but most of the time we have a joyful, exciting time.

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Unknown
Stay very busy. But it is truly, truly exciting. Yeah, yeah, it's just a special time. I mean, thinking about that made me think about when I delivered. And I had two babies here at stack, and there's really no way you can describe it until you're there and you have done it. But such a and some delivery changing event, there's a moment these people, these patients have waited ten, nine, ten months.

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Unknown
Like as soon as that baby is born, everybody is quiet. And it's just like a really like a piece like and it's so split second and then all of a sudden just there's moms crying, baby crying, that's all. Just crying. Yeah. I mean, it's just all the emotions. It's kind of magical. It's cool. Yeah. It's so much fun.

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Unknown
Well, let's kind of talk about, you know, the journey of having your baby here. And it it does start before you, you know, get here for labor and delivery in your pregnancy. We offer some parenting classes. So can you talk a little bit about that and what that offers for patients? Caitlin, our consultant, does classes twice a month.

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Unknown
It's two separate classes that talks about epidurals, birthing kind of how we do things here and breastfeeding. And that's a really solid start for a lot of our families, because most people don't know what to expect coming into this. Like even if you've had like, I've got four brothers and sisters, I had no idea what I was going into when I was delivering my own baby and I worked here.

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Unknown
So, I mean, you kind of like, I don't know, it kind of gets into the stepping stone, like it's like a good foundation to kind of jump off on. And. Yeah. And through Caitlin's classes, she also does a tour with the parents. Said they get to come up and tour labor and delivery. She kind of points out, you know, these are labor rooms.

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Unknown
And then if you are a scheduled C-section or something like that, we have the Or spec here. We have two hours. And then she kind of shows the anti OBD unit. So if mom has any obstetrical problems during the pregnancy, she'll come to OBD and get triaged. And then as well as if the doctor sends them from the office, they go to any partum, and then she takes them to postpartum and shows them postpartum over there in the rooms and things like that.

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Unknown
So they kind of have an idea of where everything is, even though it can be kind of intimidating when you come to the hospital and kind of like, whoa. Very much so, you know, you know, it all runs together. But but yeah. So she does that as well. Yeah. It's interesting when you were talking about the education classes and like not remembering things even from child to child, you can forget what it's weird how your body like forgets.

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Unknown
I think it does it on purpose. It's like I'm going to make you forget what those lines, you know, that's all right. You might be like, no, I'm good. But like, I remember, I couldn't remember if you were supposed to burp the baby after you breastfed. Like I know you knew after a bottle of it, but I was like, do they get it?

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Unknown
You know, but just the nursing staff, the lactation consultant that's there is obviously there to help you with this question. So that's so beneficial. Yes. And Caitlin is our lactation consultant and she's typically here Monday through Friday. She likes 7 to 3 something like that, something like that. But even if she's not here or you know, she's off or or it's the weekend.

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Unknown
Everybody here is trained in breastfeeding. So we are all able anybody in pink should be able to help the moms so they don't feel like, you know, they're doing this on their own and they feel lost. We're all here to help. So everybody gets a basic kind of, you know, and that is a thing to note that all of our women and children staff were pink.

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Unknown
So that is why they're. So you can always recognize them, when they're out and about. Yeah. So you both support different stages. You know, Carly, you work in labor and delivery and Jolie and postpartum. How how do you all work together on the unit? So I mean, it's just a mix of things like we might be, postpartum a lot of times get some of our C-sections ready.

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Unknown
So we're going to pick up the patient from them. They're giving us the story. They've already prepped them, you know, things like that. So we are intertwined in that way. We get this dissection, we do this dissection, we recover the patient, and then we take them back to them as well as with vaginal deliveries. We've been we'll we've we're getting ready for mother babies.

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Unknown
So we're excited about that. And so we're doing handoff on both mom and baby. And so we're you know we're helping over in labor and delivery. Get the babies situated get settled. We do have an admission nurse that is typically doing medications for us if possible. A lot of times the babies decide to all come at the same time.

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Unknown
So you know, then it's all hands on deck. And then we hand off when we come and take mom and baby over, we hand off to our postpartum nurses who are now getting ready to do mother baby. A lot of us, we're doing a lot of cross training right now to get everybody ready. They have several of them have trained to nursery, several of labor and delivery, have trained to nursery.

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Unknown
And so we're kind of doing phases of getting that training in. So we're all cross training. So when you mentioned Mother baby because most people probably don't understand what that means. So what does that mean. That means that, you know with the and I think it's September 1st, we kind of do a soft launch for this. For us, mom and baby will be cared for by the same nurses, which I don't know if this will be called postpartum or not.

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Unknown
Right. It'll be like the postpartum unit will be a mother baby unit and they'll have the same nurse. It's good continuum of care. They have one face to keep up with versus two different people that you don't really know who to ask for it, which can be confusing. I mean, even when I worked here, like I would, you're in that postpartum haze.

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Unknown
You're not really remembering who's coming in every room. And everybody was really like, put the Bismarck bottles. I don't know who I need to ask questions to. So having the one face for both of you will be it'll. A lot of our moms are already raving about it. They're like, I like just being able to ask a question and you having the answer.

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Unknown
So I feel like when the new building is finally complete and we're moving in there, like we'll be rocking and rolling. Yeah. I mean, and just also for clarification for the listening audience, if you have not been pregnant or maybe you've never been to a delivery unit, tell us what the difference is between antiparticle labor and delivery postpartum in nurseries.

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Unknown
We mentioned those a lot, but they're like, what does that mean? Especially the anti-partisan postpartum, because those are not like terms of people. So it is it is definitely confusing, especially if you're if you don't work in healthcare or you haven't been to the hospital. It is very confusing. Anti-Party is so before we have the baby, which also sometimes if a patient goes into the hospital and or I mean not the hospital, if they go into the doctor's office and after having the baby and they're having baby blood pressure problems or things like that, they may send them to the anti-party unit to get some work up done, triage and everything like that.

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Unknown
But anti-party is typically prior to having the baby. But so we and then Obed kind of the difference between the two is anti-party is if the patient spending in the office and they've seen the doctor and the doctor's court over orders, things like that, Obed is they may have called the office but might not have been seen today, and they just need to be triaged and kind of worked up.

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Unknown
We do have our 24 hour OB hospitalist program, which is phenomenal. So what that is, is we have a hospitalist that is on for that 24 hour shift. They come in, they triage the patient and kind of do a workup on them, kind of like if you're in the E.R. and then if needed, if they need to be admitted or anything like that, they will hand over to the patient's primary O.B. and they take over from there.

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Unknown
If the patient is getting that minute from labor, they're calling them saying, hey, I got your patient. She's like 3 to 4cm, you know, let's see what you want to do at them. That doctor takes over and then labor and delivery is where we are going to have the baby. And then or if we're having, you know, to stabilize patients that might be trying to have a baby too soon, we might be doing that's going to be there.

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Unknown
And then postpartum is where we hand off to Jolie. You have your baby. Or if you're being admitted for an any part of the problem, like you may end up on postpartum for a little bit, just hanging out with us because our rooms tend to be a little bit more comfortable. Yeah. And we give you that fetal monitoring and everything you need there.

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Unknown
But then after delivery, when you come over to us, we're taking care of you and baby now, our nursery and our you are going to be a little bit more separate. We're going to have just a nice you and then postpartum will be the mother baby unit where we're taking care of you and baby. So that way, our nursery staff, they're being trained.

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Unknown
I think they're going to be trained for a level three here pretty soon, so we can take in a larger variety of patients so that that way we're not having to send everyone, not everyone, but are really early, really early on. You can kind of keep everyone closer together and really take care of the family as a unit versus having baby in one hospital and mom and the other.

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Unknown
So currently we're a level to be one tenth of care unit, and we did get approval from the state to take that up to a level three. Nicki and I know y'all, as teams are already working on that. We don't know exactly what the timeline looks, but sometimes shortly after we open up the new tower, the new Women's and Infant center, you, the community can expect that to come in the near future.

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Unknown
And that is so important for those families because yes, we're we're very excited about it in the fact that if we have a mom that's just right at that mark of, hey, we can take the baby, you know, 30, I think it's 32 weeks. Usually around there. We can typically if it's above that, we can keep them here.

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Unknown
But if it's below that we need to send them somewhere, you know, and we it's terrible having to send a baby and a mom separately. It really is heartbreaking because, you know, you want to be with your baby. You just you've carried this baby for, you know, at that point, however many months pregnant you are, you know, but you want to be with your baby.

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Unknown
And so we have had to transfer several patients over there to all like all typically Phoebe is where we send to so that they can be together and be at that higher level. Nicaea. So we're excited to to have a higher level. Nicki here to where in the future where we can keep those bonds and babies together. Yeah.

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Unknown
That's important. That is so exciting. Yes. It's going to be great for our patients. Yes. For first time parents who might be nervous coming in, how do you make them feel? Comfortable. I mean, it's nerve wracking. And you're like me, myself on a discharge day. I remember sitting there staring at my daughter, thinking, they're going to let me take her home.

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Unknown
I like, is this the qualifying I like? There's honestly just I think we try and be like a big family. Like we're your cousins, your aunt's. Your uncle's like, ask us any questions you have. Because there's there's nothing that we haven't been doing this for sure. And the patients often are like, this might be a crazy question or this might be a dumb question.

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Unknown
It's not, it's not, it's not. We would rather you ask. And I mean, you know, sometimes we're like, I'm not sure on that, but let me find out the answer for you. You know, let me consult some friends. And then you go to the desk and you're like, okay, gather around. Yeah. We got to have a little a little Einstein chat.

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Unknown
Yeah. And like, in labor and delivery, you know, to just. I'd just go in and I just welcome the patient. And I just want them to feel comfortable. I don't want to feel intimidated because there are. I mean, a hospital can be intimidating you. No. Absolutely. Yeah. Especially if you've never been in it before. You know, it can be scary.

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Unknown
And and they don't know all the, you know, this is new to them. So I just try to go in and welcome them. And I like to know, you know, what their plan is a lot. Some people have birth plans. Some people, you know, they just they don't. It just depends. And I just really want to try to make their plan and how they want their birth at their baby to go.

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Unknown
I try to make it as close to what they want as possible. So I like to go in and be like, okay, what's our plan? Are we getting an epidural? Would you rather not like, you know, I'm open to anything you want to do. Let's do it. You know, as long as it's safe for you in the baby, you know?

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Unknown
Absolutely. So I just important to listen on your plan, because we want to make sure that we can get as close to your plan as possible. But with the rise in, like, certain forms of social media, there's a lot of unsafe plans that are being brought on. And so everybody's an expert, right? On social media, right? Right. So we definitely try to, you know, welcome him in and figure out, you know what what are their preferences.

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Unknown
What would they like. And let's figure out how we can try to do meet that as well as possible. Yeah. Advanced tools and technology. I know we've added some tools to our tool belt in regards to care for baby and mama. Can you tell us a little bit about those? I'm thinking like when the wireless monitoring and the angel.

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Unknown
Yeah. So some of those. Absolutely. So the wireless monitoring, it's actually one of my favorites. It just because it kind of frees up the mom a little bit sometimes. I'll be honest. It works. It's technology. You know how that goes. So sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But I'm always willing to give it a shot. We do have to put the moms on, like, the regular monitor for at least probably 30 minutes or so to get a good fetal tracing.

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Unknown
And then we do we can try the wireless as well. And a lot of times it works great. It gives mom a little more freedom to be up, go to the bathroom. Some moms like to get on a birthing ball. You know, it helps them. I do tell my patients, you know, like I told you, it's technology. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

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Unknown
But let's give it a shot. You know, I do tell them that as the baby gets lower and we're getting closer to delivery, sometimes it can be a little bit difficult to trace just because we're getting lower. But at that point, if we need to, we can go back to the other monitor. And usually at that point we're getting close to being finished.

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Unknown
So and then our beds, our labor and delivery beds that we can put those in just about any different position. You need them to be like the God on that. When we first got those, I looked at online and they had like this infographic with all the different positions that moms can get in on the bed. I was like, yes, wow.

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Unknown
That's me. Yes, yes. And it's pink. There we go. And then Angela technology. That's great. We use it with our NICU patients. Or if we have a model mag and she can't necessarily have baby in there with her at any given point. It's cameras that we have set up with secure access. Mom can pull it up on her phone.

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Unknown
She can give the link to whichever family members that she would like to have it. And you can just live stream your baby and you can watch pretty much their whole little life while they're just in their little incubators nesting. Well, they're not incubators, but that's what my patient earlier called them.

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Unknown
Essentially. And so you can just I mean, you can watch them. And most of the time they're just kind of laying there chillin with their pacifiers or sleeping. But I mean, they don't do a whole, whole lot too much reassuring things, right? To be able to work out and make sure, you know, it's a secondary reinsurance for you, that they're safe and be a thinker.

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Unknown
And you could also share with grandparents or family and, you know, they can tune in to if they're not able to be here. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. After delivery, we kind of turned to like, bonding. So what does that look like? What is your role in helping moms and those that very first few hours minimizing like any sort of like outside distraction I think would be like probably the main goal for us on our unit.

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Unknown
If you have 47 people in there with you right after, like they're playing hot potato with the baby. I mean, it's just it's kind of hard and you can see these moms and they're just kind of like getting overwhelmed. And so sometimes it's like our responsibility to come and be like, hey, visiting hours or like.

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Unknown
But it's being there and like kind of reading your patient and knowing like, okay, she needs help with this or let's, let's try and help her out with that. And not being afraid to just ask the hard question like, hey, like, do you need me to kick everybody out? Do you like what? Kind of like, how do you need to bond?

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Unknown
What do you need my help with? Because, I mean, let's face it, it's a natural experience. Like you kind of. As soon as you have your baby, you're like, okay, I want it. I want my right here, you know, like, right here. And a lot of times you're kind of scared to ask for that. And so you feel safe to look at any of your nurses and feel like, I want my baby.

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Unknown
Bring it to me. Yeah, yeah. Because, I mean, we don't we don't mind because I always tell my patients I was like, I will be the bad guy and I will tell everybody, we need some time. You know, that's awesome. And because, I mean, we know that the families obviously are ready to love on this baby as well.

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Unknown
Support system and like they're there. Yeah. But but we want mom and dad to have their time too you know. And so I definitely if my mom wants to do skin to skin, as long as baby is looking good and we don't see any signs of needing, you know, some oxygen and things like that, I'm definitely like, hey, yeah, let's do some skin to skin.

00:21:34:13 - 00:21:55:12
Unknown
Like if they're wanting to breastfeed within the first hour, let's do it. You know, that those are two major things that I definitely try to do with my patients if they're wanting that. So, I mean, it's a it's really a transitional period, like you're not when you're on our unit, most of the time you're not like sick.

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Unknown
So it's more of like getting you used to what you need to do to take care of baby. Like how how you respond to things like if you've had a C-section teaching you how to to get up and manage, like manage your pain, get up. Be able to take care of yourself too. Yeah, like we just went through a lot more time.

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Unknown
Like, 48 hours is a good average like that. We have most of our patients. And if you think about this, a really, really, like, brief period to teach someone to take care of a new baby. Yeah, absolutely. Like, while you've got all your stuff going on. Yeah, exactly. You're our first time moms. Like, a lot of them are so gung ho, they're like, yes, let's do it.

00:22:36:06 - 00:22:53:03
Unknown
Like, I'm ready to go home, my baby. And then I think like that to me. And I'm like, I was not prepared for you. Like some that are also like, no, I'm not. Can I say, I mean, we've had some moms that they're like, okay, are we are we short? And I'm like, yeah, like I'm sure, are you sure?

00:22:53:04 - 00:23:08:11
Unknown
Like what? Like what kind of questions do you have? And then we've done the whole discharge process. And then the next thing I know, we're sitting on the bed for the next 30 minutes, just sit looking at one of they're talking and I'm like, you've got this. You're fine. Like I promise you. Like, we're not going to we're not going to send you home if we don't think you have it right.

00:23:08:16 - 00:23:25:07
Unknown
Like we're. And then we're always still a resource after they go home. So I mean, I always tell them, like, just if you have any questions, just call us back, you know, we're discharged back. It has every phone number for us, like for all the different units. If you call one and they can't help you. They'll transfer you to who can mean.

00:23:25:07 - 00:23:44:18
Unknown
Yeah Caitlin or consultant does outpatient. Yeah. She still she she does that. So she is still a resource as well. And she's a great resource. Yeah I had to do that and I and that was and I was even working here and I still think I didn't really understand that you could still have that conversation with my son after we had got home.

00:23:44:20 - 00:24:01:06
Unknown
Maybe it was like a day or two. He like, coughed up or spit up like blood. And I was like, oh my God, like, this is gonna be bad. And I called him. They're like, oh, it's probably just some remaining, like whatever fluids that you probably had. And he was completely fine, didn't have any issues. And so just having that sense.

00:24:01:07 - 00:24:21:20
Unknown
Yeah, we're good having someone you can call as a lifeline. I mean that's that's a huge, huge plus for our for trusted medical advice. You know I'm not going to go in those cases. Exactly. No TikTok this time. That's right. That's right. Yeah I do it all the time. That's right. Because if we don't know the question, we're going to be like, okay, hold on for just a second.

00:24:21:22 - 00:24:49:03
Unknown
And then everybody converges on that question. So we figure it out. Yeah it matters for sure. Something else we have we also want to touch on the Safe Sleep Initiative. So can you talk about that and how you families about safe sleep and why that's so important. So we have posters and all of our postpartum rooms that have like the picture perfect safe sleep, which is a fitted sheet flight in the crib, baby flat on their back, and just a onesie.

00:24:49:04 - 00:25:13:18
Unknown
That's perfect. No crib bumpers. As cute as they may be, they're a huge hazard. No stuffed animals, no blankets. We live in the South. Let's face it, they don't eat all that right now like it's 100 degrees by 10 a.m., like we're good. And even when it's February, like, it's still, I mean, the majority of us in our area, our homes are not 20 degrees.

00:25:13:18 - 00:25:31:19
Unknown
They don't need to be bundled up where they could possibly roll over and accidentally, you know, be some other, something like that. It's it's an initiative to help prevent SIDs. It's a a huge.

00:25:31:21 - 00:25:53:03
Unknown
Learning curve because a lot of old school people that's they have to be bundled up completely. You want to make sure that they're completely swaddled. And once a baby starts getting mobile and moving, you don't want to swaddle anymore because if they can't pick themselves up, then it's it's a it's a risk. And even things like you said, it's a learning curve.

00:25:53:04 - 00:26:15:23
Unknown
Things have changed. Yeah. They changed like one of the new new policy or studies or things is what is it? Don't wear a hat. The parents are. If the parents are asleep, don't leave the hat on the baby. If the if the parents are eating, you're right. So if the parents are awake, then you can obviously have the hat on the baby and watch baby from there.

00:26:15:23 - 00:26:41:01
Unknown
But I know through my nursery orientation just crossing over here recently to prepare for mother baby, they were telling me about that. They're like, yeah, so we're telling parents now based off of studies that, you know, when Mom and dad are asleep and baby's asleep, let's take the hat off and not have that. So because they can't regulate their temperatures very well, and when they're if they get cold, they'll, they tend to cry a whole lot more.

00:26:41:03 - 00:27:03:12
Unknown
It's kind of something we've noticed, but like, if they start to get really warm, they don't really have like a trigger mechanism for that for use. All of a sudden they're just like making themselves. Yeah. When they're like, yeah, they're just sleep over swaddled. And so they have to have. Yeah. Yeah. So if you're, if Mom and dad or whoever happens to be the support at that point for baby, if you're alert, you're awake.

00:27:03:14 - 00:27:24:22
Unknown
I mean babies, babies. Cool. Like having the hat on and everything. But if you're going to go to sleep, like you can take baby's hat off, put them in a onesie. Nice flat sheet in the crib. No stuffed animals, no blankets. I mean them in their pacifiers. Pretty perfect. And trying your best not to fall asleep when they're holding your.

00:27:25:00 - 00:27:43:18
Unknown
Especially as a new mom. As hard as it may be and as it is to snuggle with them, definitely try not to fall asleep while you're holding them and snuggling with them. Yeah, I mean, in my opinion, that almost feels like the biggest risk of injury for baby or whatever. What have you. Yes. Just because it's so tempting, it is.

00:27:43:19 - 00:28:01:10
Unknown
Especially when you're exhausted. Yeah. Everybody's tired, everybody's tired. So it's like, let's all snap together, but let's not. You're on the verge of crying. And every time you pick baby up and put them here, they stop. And it's just you're like, okay, this, this, this, this is what we're going to have to do. But I mean, the minute you start getting let's go.

00:28:01:12 - 00:28:19:09
Unknown
I think it's important to know that it does happen. People do. It does. Well, they've lost it. But also like, babies are dropped like they do fall asleep. They hit like. And you always want to think, oh I don't hear that happening. So this isn't going to happen to me. So I have heard of stories of that since being a mom.

00:28:19:10 - 00:28:37:12
Unknown
I was like, oh my God, I wish I would have kind of, you know, it's not going to happen to me. Not something you would want to talk about. Yes. Yeah. But I think just shedding light to it so that you I know, I know, I was like I breastfed, I was at home by myself, I was rocking her and I had her like this.

00:28:37:12 - 00:28:54:10
Unknown
And I felt myself kind of do this and I like I was like, oh my God. I'm like, I could have dropped her like. So then I had a whole lot of meltdown. But I mean, it was instantly like I was, yeah, in her bed, she was fine. But then like, I sit there and I was just like, oh my God, what if I drop, you know, because you just like.

00:28:54:11 - 00:28:58:20
Unknown
And I'm like, oh, it's.

00:28:58:22 - 00:29:24:22
Unknown
Yeah, well, we're getting close to the end of our time. But I wanted to ask what you're looking forward to most about the new Women and Infants tower? Oh, I don't know. I'm just I'm excited. I joke about this all the time, but I'm really excited about bigger doorways for best. Oh, yeah, I think that might be one little small thing, but just being able to get in those rooms easier and not bumping sideways.

00:29:24:22 - 00:29:55:09
Unknown
Bigger rooms? Yeah. Bigger rooms. Just more space. Just more space for the two biggest things I'm excited about. Like the whole new building is fantastic. But I mean, if you've ever tried to get a bed into a postpartum room, especially with a C-section patient who has just had major surgery. Yeah, like I'm trying not to bump you here even on I actually got to walk it the other day with the construction people and even the hallways they don't have, like the, the, the hard corner edges.

00:29:55:09 - 00:30:16:19
Unknown
They're like rounded. And they were talking about that. They mentioned about how it's so much easier to like transport patients around there because of that, because I think that's just the most thing I'm most excited about is more room, little things like that to try to make it more efficient, more helpful for y'all, better for our patients. It's not just about having a nice new building.

00:30:16:19 - 00:30:35:22
Unknown
It is designed with the experience and is designed with them. And like I think that how our unit is set up currently there kind of like like spread like that, like wings, having them kind of more like this I feel like is a little more be a little bit more efficient for us to work together a little more closely.

00:30:35:23 - 00:30:56:05
Unknown
Yeah. There's not 47 walls between us. Yeah, yeah. So it's gonna be good. I'm excited. I'm excited for y'all. I know obviously it's going to be a little learning curve as a little. It will be growing pains for sure. But those are not things we can't work through. So we're excited. I think we all have a little bit of anxiety about like getting lost in our knees.

00:30:56:07 - 00:31:15:02
Unknown
Yeah, yeah. It's like, you know, we've been so used to this and you know, you know exactly where everything's at. You can pretty much walk it blond folded. Yeah, exactly. But yeah. Yeah, I'm really excited. I'm excited that y'all get to utilize this. I mean, this is it's not it's very rare to get to go into a very new building like this, right?

00:31:15:03 - 00:31:32:13
Unknown
I mean, it happens once every couple of decades. Yeah. My favorite thing to tell my patients is right now is like, come back soon. Yeah. This one the next time. Yeah. Next kid. That's right. Hurricane season. So we'll be busy.

00:31:32:15 - 00:31:44:04
Unknown
That's funny. And one last question for anybody who's considering delivering their baby here at SMC health. What what would you tell them about the care that they can experience?

00:31:44:06 - 00:31:59:08
Unknown
You've got a lot of dedicated nurses, doctors, our surgical techs, our patient care text. You got a lot of dedicated people here that are are ready and willing and excited for you to just join in on this exciting time in your life.

00:31:59:09 - 00:32:16:23
Unknown
You know, it truly is such a blessing to be part of that. And we we really, you know, love our jobs and we love taking care of these people. And, and I always say, if you're going to have a job in or anything in, whatever you do, it doesn't matter if it's a job or a hobby or anything else.

00:32:16:23 - 00:32:29:23
Unknown
You gotta love it, love it and put everything in that you've got. Give it your all and we're all here and we're ready and we're willing. And we would love to welcome you into our family here to have a baby with us.

00:32:29:23 - 00:32:36:18
Unknown
Yeah. So I mean, you you nailed it with that. We have a lot of staff that do like outside training for their job.

00:32:36:18 - 00:33:02:04
Unknown
Right? Patient care techs that are car seat safety certified. I went and got a lactation certification just to be able to help with. I got training in my fetal monitoring and obstetrical care. So we're all kind of obsessed in that. We are being asked to be the best. Well, it's evident because you both have a lot of daisy pins on your badge, and that's when a patient or family member nominates.

00:33:02:06 - 00:33:22:18
Unknown
Our staff are going above and beyond. So that's evident. And and we we we try so hard like when we read them we're like, who was this? You know, because we truly we love reading those. And we love to hear everything that everyone has to say about us. It means a lot to us. And we just we really appreciate our patients and their families, and we're just blessed to be a part of their journey.

00:33:22:20 - 00:33:33:14
Unknown
Well, we're blessed to have y'all on the team as James. They help for sure. Absolutely. All right. Well, I think that wraps us up for today. So thank you all for having us. Yeah. Thank you so much.