heidi1130
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I was very scared at first, but asked a ton of questions so that I understood the machines as well as the nurses and even took down the model numbers and looked up more information online. I even scheduled time with the Dr to see what they were looking for on the monitors and what constituted an 'issue' and what was considered 'normal' as well as what steps needed to be taken to 'fix' any issue. Once I did this I am confident and comfortable anytime I hear an alarm that I know what is causing it and what I can do to fix it. My LO doesn't have respiratory or heart rate issues so I can usually just ignore the alarms, but just need to check her probes as she is good at taking them off. The biggest one I have to watch for is her IV alarm because she keeps trying to pull it out like she has done with every other wire she has had (she took herself off oxygen, off the feeding tube and off the CPaP). They even restrained her arms to try to keep the feeding tube in and she figured out how to use her tongue to get it out so they finally tried her on the nipple (albeit 2 weeks earlier than they wanted to) and she fed like a champ. Sometimes I think the babies know better than the Drs.