When you think about your life, are you still learning? Do you make an effort to develop new skills or learn about new things? Are you living your life with a growth mindset with the goal of always improving? Or do you stay with a fixed mindset, always feeling the need to prove what you know and comparing yourself to others? We can only grow if we continue to be lifelong learners.

Sarah and Justine believe we should always be learning and always trying to grow. Justine has told Sarah she has the biggest growth mindset of anyone she has ever met.

In this episode of Happy Hour with Bundle Birth Nurses, Sarah will introduce this new series, and she and Justine will go over what they are each learning during this phase of their lives.

You may have heard of coping in labor or pain management techniques, but when we say physiologic coping, do you understand what we mean?

Physiologic birth has been all the rage the past few years, with everyone trying to get back to birth being a normal and physiologic process. It is an amazing movement in the right direction, but we realized something was missing. Coping. How can we help out patients' psyche to be able to progress in labor if we can't help them cope?

In this episode of Happy Hour with Bundle Birth Nurses, Sarah will walk you through what Physiologic Coping is and how she plans to teach it next year in Akumal, Mexico to 400 L&D nurses.

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TOLAC patients that are attempting a VBAC are a special population. We as nurses can influence how they feel during their experience with as little as 3 words. In this episode, Sarah will share a where birth, she experienced healing in her patient and will give us tips on how we can facilitate that in ours. 

It can feel uncomfortable when we see things done or to our patients without consent. In nursing school, it is hammered into our heads that we need to advocate, but in the birth world, that can feel impossible sometimes. In this episode, Justine will share a story of an episiotomy that was done without consent and how she navigated that conversation. Sarah and Justine will discuss tips on talking to team members when it comes to these hard conversations, and they will also try to help you understand that we are not responsible for everyone’s response. Sarah will give you tips on how not to take on everyone’s response and how we can navigate hard conversations when someone reacts negatively. It all comes down to doing the right thing and doing the best we can on that given shift. That’s all we can be expected to do.

Birth plans get a bad rap. Let’s be honest. If you are an L&D nurse, you have heard the phrase “here’s a ticket to the OR.” Instead of being opposed to any and all birth plans, what if we took another stance? What if we decided to be curious instead of judgemental? It is about time we start assessing our bias when it comes to birth plans. Do you know what is included in the patient bill of rights? Do you know if your state prioritizes the birthing person or the baby in an emergency? Are you comfortable with an informed refusal? In this episode, Sarah and Justine discuss birth plans while removing them from the paper. Thinking about the big picture and as a communication tool for their care team. They will talk about general birth plans to the Sacred Birth Plan. Learn some tools, which includes scripts on how to interact with birth plans as well as how to care for patients that have them! If you love or hate birth plans, this episode is for YOU. Thanks for listening and subscribing! 

If you have heard or experienced the epidural catheter shortage on your unit, you are not alone! This can feel very overwhelming as a birth worker/labor nurse, especially when we have patients that see an epidural as an expectation. In this episode, Sarah and Justine go over BIPTAME, a Bundle Birth acronym that guides us in helping our patients cope. They will explore creative options that we can do as nurses to help our patients manage their labor.

Listen closely, there is a 50% off promo code in this episode for our on-demand Coping in Labor class!

Early amniotomy for induction of labor (between 3-4 cm depending) has been a controversial discussion at the bedside and among L&D nurses. In this episode, Justine and Sarah discuss the current research and professional recommendations for early AROM as well as the risks altogether of AROM (in general) and early AROM. Does it really increase risk? As nurses, we frequently hear how frustrating this is in the current movement towards physiologic birth. What other evidence and information is lacking surrounding early artificial rupture of membranes? How could it affect the physiologic birth process? 

As labor & delivery nurses, we need to know how to manage these conversations and clinical scenarios with providers, so let’s talk about it! They’ll share their opinions and discuss how to anticipate and prepare for working with providers and give you a script on how to educate a patient about amnioinfusion following an AROM. All that and more! Thanks for watching and subscribing!

References and articles discussed in this episode: 

• Early amniotomy after cervical ripening for induction of labor: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
• Amniotomy for shortening spontaneous labour
• Early Versus Late Amniotomy in Nulliparous Women Undergoing Induction of Labor
• “Early Rupture of Membranes” during Induced Labor as a Risk Factor for Cesarean Delivery in Term Nulliparas
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As labor & delivery nurses, we carry so much weight in what we do. In this episode, Sarah & Justine talk about our responsibility as labor & delivery nurses and how to let that shift go. This skill will help us live our best lives and not take work home with us. What you do is SO important, but nothing is worth your mental health, including this job!

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In this official FIRST episode of Happy Hour with Bundle Birth Nurses where Sarah and Justine invite you into the family. They discuss 3 important phrases that you'll continue to hear around here at Bundle Birth, and invite you into the background of how they came about, what they mean, and how they apply not only to your work as an L&D nurse but also to your life! Comment sharing your favorite Bundle Birth-ism or how you've incorporated these into your life!

Join Sarah and Justine, Labor & Delivery nurses, as they introduce themselves and share why this podcast has been on their hearts. There is also a really fun giveaway at the end!