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Mom2Two 01:38 PM 02-16-2018
Originally Posted by Cat Herder:
I know too many nurses to be surprised.

Sometimes it is hard to see things when it is your own kid, though. Mechanics drive the worst maintained cars, I've heard.
Yeah, don't assume that a nurse knows everything. I remember when we (and NICU follow-up clinic) were tracking DD's head circumference so carefully, and at this time the new, circular head measuring tapes came out. We kept getting different measurements from different groups, and in the end I had to explain to our pediatrician's office that head circumference was always the largest measurement, and that the measure tape had to be sloped from the forehead to the most protruding part.

Our pedi had to make sure the nurses were all trained better on it, because it was giving us a heart attack and giving all the children inaccurate measurements.

It was a big deal for us because we were on the line for getting DD to grow well enough after weaning her off her feeding tube.
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