A lot of pro-aborts like to justify their position by refusing to think of unborn babies as people who feel pain. One NICU nurse would like to give them a much-needed dose of reality.
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Indeed it is:
There are actually some studies saying a fetus can’t feel pain until 24, 28, or 35 weeks.
Fun right?
Here’s a typical day at work in a level IV NICU where we take care of babies 21 weeks and up… (1/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
0645 Sit down to get report from the night nurse. We have a 23 weeker now 26 weeks. And a 27 weeker now 32 weeks. She gives me report and ends report telling me lab called -the CBC clotted, I need to recollect. Also his PIV’s don’t last long. (2/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
0730 I assess my 32 weeker and his OGT tube is loose. I need to retape it. I gently and slowly pull off the barely stuck tape on his little chin and he cries and swats at me. (Because tape coming off hurts). (3/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
I swaddle him so he doesn’t ‘help me’. I suction his slobbers, dry his little chin and the tube, make sure it’s at the right depth and retape it. But he doesn’t want it in and gets an arm out of his swaddle to grab the tube. (4/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
Luckily I already have it taped. I give him a pacifier and hold his little hands and tell him I’m sorry it hurt but he has to have it so he can eat. He sucks on his binky and gives me an annoyed side eye. (5/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
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His temp probe came out from under the sticker so I carefully lift a corner of the sticker off his belly to put the probe back under. He sucks harder on his binky, furrows his brows, and his heart rate goes up. (Because that hurt a little). (6/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
I ask my coworker to come over while I start a new PIV & draw a CBC. She gives him a binky, holds his arms gently and holds the leg while I insert a needle/catheter into the top of his foot. I tape the new PIV. I want another nurse to help keep him calm. (Because it hurts). (7/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
He whimpers and sucks on his binky. She says, “I’m sorry little buddy.” He scrunches his little eyes closed, and his heart rate goes from the 150’s to the 180’s. I tell him, “I’m sorry, almost done”. We apologize because we hate causing pain. (Because getting an IV hurts). (8/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
0825 I settle him in and hear a nearby baby, a 28 weeker, start to desat. My coworker is busy. I go over to her and she’s pulled her nasal cannula down out of her nose and into her mouth and is sucking on it. I tell her that’s adorable but it really needs to be in her nose. (9/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
I carefully pull off the loose tape and she cries and kicks her little legs (because that hurts). I put the cannula back in her nares and put on new tape. Her oxygen sats come up nicely and I give her an actual binky. (10/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
0845 I assess my other 26 week baby. Take her pulse ox probe off her little foot (it’s taped on & removing it very gently still hurts) she cries (because it was painful). I get her footprints so I can make her mom a footprint card bc today she’s 2 pounds and that’s major. (11/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
Then move the pulse ox probe to the other foot, we rotate sites every 12 hours. And I finish up her assessment and start her feeding. As I’m leaving her bedside a recently repaired gastroschisis preemie starts to cry. (Because healing from an abdominal surgery is painful). (12/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
I go over to him and he’s in pain. I try to calm him while his nurse checks to see when he can have his next pain med dose. Then sit down to chart everything including the PIPP’s pain scale for both babies. (Premature Infant Pain Profile). (Because we know they feel pain). (13/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
That’s only the first 3 hrs of a 12 hr shift. The NICU nurses, neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, and occupational & physical therapists constantly try to prevent pain, assess pain, & treat pain. All day everyday because they feel pain… (14/?)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
I could go on and on about the pain the extreme micropreemies feel just from diaper and position changes. But there’s also pain from chest tubes, endotracheal tubes, drains.
They feel pain.
We do all we can to prevent it.
Do not tell me they don’t feel pain. (15/15)
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019
These babies feel pain. Just like any human. And many Democrats openly advocate for the right to kill them at this stage of development in the womb. It’s cruel, and it’s wrong.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
— Becca (@BeccCobain) March 20, 2019