Huh???? (rant)
 

I read here again and again for new Yorkie owners to be prepared. Have $$ for emergency vetting, have supplies a, b & c ready, read books 1, 2 & 3 before bringing furbaby home, etc. If you can't do this, you should wait to get a yorkie until you can. How can we be this concerned for our furbabies, but some people with new skinbabies have absolutely NO CLUE whatsoever?
Tonight, I had new parents (grown, not teens) bring in a 5 day old baby because it wasn't tolerating formula. Find out they are not giving recommended formula, can't buy "this week". (Whatever happened to breast feeding? That is free... but I digress). I had to give them formula to take home. They ran out of vaseline for the circumcision (hmmm, 5 days old, may have just had the tiny packet supplied in the hospital). I instructed them to purchase some. Had no idea how to check a rectal temp, and in fact, were horrified at the thought. More education done.
How does this baby have a snowballs chance in h***? How do people bring a child into this world so completely unprepared to take care of it? I have no kids, but my tax dollars are gonna raise this one. I am so upset when I see this stuff. I just want to shake the parents and ask them what in the h*** were you thinking? Can you not read? Ask questions??? Did you not realize that you cannot afford a child???? You can't even seem to buy soap for yourselves!!!
I'm sorry for my rant. Sometimes the crap I see at work just won't get out of my head.

It is amazing that the human race has made it this far with many of the parents out there. Hang in there.

Thanks. Am I wrong to think the movie Idiocracy is actually prophetic??

LOL. I'm wasn't that familiar with that movie and had to Google it but boy, it sounds like we're moving in that direction in many ways!

I can not imagine letting them take the baby out of your office How scary this child doesn't sound like it has a chance and so sad. But thank you for educating them a little.

Anonymous call by a "neighbor" to social services saying that you think these people need some help because they are neglecting their child because they don't seem to be able to care for it....honestly, its at least a try.

My view is just because you can reproduce doesn't mean you should. It is just sad that there is people out there that can not have children and will be the best parents in the world. Yet there is others that can reproduce like rabbits and can not take care of their children. So so sad

:thumbup::thumbup: They expect the working people to do it! Sad and very unfair to those of us that work. :mad:

As an ED nurse, I am obligated by law to report any suspected abuse or neglect. This little nugget wasn't neglected; they seemed to care and were doing the best they could with the resources they had, but my point is they have no resources and both were dumb as a box of rocks. Unfortunately, I see this stuff every day. People who shouldn't have a puppy, much less kids. There was another woman, younger than me, not a tooth in her head (nor her daughters) who was bragging on her 15th grandchild. Really????? Just frustrating.

What makes me most upset about this is that there are so many people out there struggling with fertility who would give anything to get pregnant...and then there are children (or grown-up adult children) who have no clue what they're getting themselves into and carelessly reproduce when they clearly have no business having a child.

I know that no matter how prepared you think you are, you never truly know what it'll be like til you have the baby, but come on. didnt they read any sort of literature at all? Don't they have an ounce of common sense?!

I'll give the first couple points for at least trying. All too often on my end of it we see parents who really and truly don't give a flying f... They have the latest iPhone, perfect nails and tats, but they won't even buy a car seat or show up for a scheduled discharge teaching class. Forget follow up visits, that cuts in to t.v. time.

As for your second person, I can relate to that, too. I've been told, point blank, that they were happy this child was going to have medical issues because it meant more money from the government.

It makes me very, very sad to send some of our babies home, knowing that they will be neglected and even abused. Unfortunately DFACS here won't bother with them until something actually does happen.

As someone who has actually been a surrogate, twice, for infertile couples, I honestly can say it frustrates the heck out of me...... Girls leaving babies in trash cans and dumpsters and having more children just so they can collect a welfare check and won't take care of the children they were blessed with, and there are so many women out there who yearn to fill their arms.
Nothing can describe the joy on an infertile woman's face when she holds her newborn infant minutes after she was born, or a daddy's face as he cuts the umbilical cord of the daughter he thought he would never have. That little girl turned 4 Saturday, and I got the joy of telling her happy birthday, and of having her mom and dad thank me for carrying her for them, again, just like they do every year on her birthday.

I just don't get why people who can't take care of themselves think they can take care of a helpless child??

Yep. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

I just don't know how nurses keep their sanity when dealing with the ignorant and having to watch the innocent suffer because of it. You must be a saint:nursing::angel2:.

I agree 100%!

Rhetts_mama's signature says it perfectly -- Prevention is wiser than destruction. Spay and neuter your pets. Although I would change it to say -- spay and neuter ignorant and incompetent humans that refuse to be educated.

Ha! No Saint here. Cranky, yes. Drink too much, fairly often.
Put my thoughts on paper to let off steam, frequently. Love my job, most definitely. Don't think I could have done this for 25 years if I didn't see that I do make a difference and that I am good at what I do. Huge self esteem boost once I realized that, and that gets me through the bad nights at work. :D

I grew up in a commonwealth - (aka- welfare state) and saw this stuff all my life pretty much. Its sad. I had a cousin have a baby right before she turned 32, I mean not a kid, but she can't care for this child. Shes broker than broke (got pregnant on purpose), lives in a slum, is living off the state EVERYTHING... yet she had a baby on purpose, to raise him in her lifestyle of poverty. :( It makes me so sad!! :( Thing is she is healthy, has a degree and COULD work, but does not.

My cousin was 15 when she had her first. Went on to have 5 more. Lives on welfare, food stamps, state child support, ssi, you name it. And she's taught her oldest 2 daughters (one who has 3 kids and is barely 21, the other is 19 and has 2) that the state "owes you". They expect the handouts and free medical treatment and formula for their kids. My cousin is 36 and has never worked. She refuses to. She told me "why should I work, when I get more from the state?" She's been married 5 times, divorced 4 and widowed 1 and is about to marry loser number 6. It's ridiculous. Her mom takes care of her youngest 3 kids, she doesn't even take care of them. But she still collects from the state for them....

I see so much of this...:(
Something is really screwed up with the system that this can continue to happen again and again. I just haven't figured why people think they are "entitled" just because they draw breath. I think many of them never even consider where that money is coming from (YOU AND ME!!!) or if they do, they just don't give a flip. They come to the ER because it is "free" and they don't have to wait for an appointment. They want million dollar workups for chronic issues because they have absolutely no intention whatsoever of paying any bills they might receive. One of my hard working coworkers got her pay garnished (by her employer, OUR hospital, no less!) because she was paying less than the minimum monthly (but WAS paying every single month) and when she asked the billing people about all the other no paying customers, she was essentially told that the hospital doesn't waste money trying to collect on bills they know will never be paid, they just go after the ones they know they can get money from. That pi***d me off so bad, I wanted to lose my mind on those people, but I need my job. It sucks!

When my daughter was in kindergarten, in WV, I had just finished nursing school and decided to be a room mother. I had a blast. One day we had our kids out on they playground. The teacher began to cry. She said it breaks her heart to know which kids didn't stand a chance due to family situations and involvement. Sad part, I watched most of those kids grow up. She was right, only 2 overcame their beginnings.

That's sad.... I don't understand why hospital ERs have to see people for colds, who go in every other night and rack up bills they don't intend to pay, meanwhile people who need treatment can't get it because its so expensive. And I make too much for any state aid-although I pay in for it, I can't use it.