Re: shakes and shivers of labor, delivery, and epidurals

[Guest guest]

Ooooo good question! I am very interested in everyone's responses!

I just tell the mom's that it is related to the extreme bodily stress and

changes that are occuring. I actually can never remember actually

learning the physiology of the shakes, and phys. was a love of mine.

I am curious what type of educational handout you are doing for the

staff. Is it on various topics of L & D? I have seen the need for this in

our unit also on some basic topics. It seems no matter how hard we try

to have cohesive ed.; our pt.'s tell us they hear something different

from all of us. I think it would be great to develop little 3x5 cheat

cards with the basics written on them about VS during labor and during

epidurals, breastfeeding, normal labs, things to check in the room before

delivery, etc.

Looking forward to everyone's thoughts!

jenn

mom to Zachariah 12/18/02

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 4/8/2004 9:18:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

slstutzman@... writes:

> I am curious what type of educational handout you are doing

> for the

> staff.

It's actually a handout on just this one topic. But many of us on the unit are

doing some type of staff education on different topics. It is part of our

clinical ladder program.

Thanks, Amy in NC

[Guest guest]

I don't know what causes it. But one of our new nurses took a holistic healing type course and she swears that massaging the soles of the feet makes it go away. Not sure if she's had success with it or not.

Debbie

[Guest guest]

I think I'll try that. Deb

"The fingerprint of God is often a paw print." Chernak McElroy

Re: [OBnurses] shakes and shivers of labor, delivery, and epidurals

I don't know what causes it. But one of our new nurses took a holistic healing type course and she swears that massaging the soles of the feet makes it go away. Not sure if she's had success with it or not.

Debbie

[Guest guest]

I think I'll try that. Deb

"The fingerprint of God is often a paw print." Chernak McElroy

Re: [OBnurses] shakes and shivers of labor, delivery, and epidurals

I don't know what causes it. But one of our new nurses took a holistic healing type course and she swears that massaging the soles of the feet makes it go away. Not sure if she's had success with it or not.

Debbie