Hot cross buns
No, I'm not referring to Steffen's biking bottom, but to the bread!
Hot cross buns,
One a penny buns,
One a penny,
Two a penny,
Hot cross buns.
Do we have those in the US? They are all over the place here. Anyways, I had my first hot cross bun today, and it was delicious! Nobody uses butter around here, I suppose that would be a pain because it's too hot for it to sit out without it melting, but it gets too hard in the fridge. Instead they eat margarine, yuck.
Today I was supposed to follow our Lactation Consultant, as she is so properly called. (I accidentally referred to her as the Lactating Consultant for the first week, she got a kick out of that.) Instead I was left at the nursery for the last day, and on Tuesday I get to start in the High Dependency Unit, or HDU. It's funny how they say "h" down here. Instead of "aye-ch", they say "hey-ch". So when they say HDU it sounds like they are sneezing. "Heychdeeyoo!" Anyways, I will be there for a couple of weeks, then I move up again to ICU. Today was a good day, and I find that I don't have to be super busy to be happy about the day, I get a lot of satisfaction out of the patient (in this case parent) contact. Today I instructed a brand new father how to bathe his son in the incubator, and I helped him through it. He was so gentle it took three times as long to get it done, but it was really fun and satisfying to make the connection and to experience that baby's first bath with his terrified, but adoring, father. I turn a blind eye to the bad hygiejne (I think I spell that different every time - it's confusing in English and Danish), and I try to do the best I can for my babies. They actually have a radio on the nurse's desk playing a local station in the ICU, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't get any better as I move up the ward. We'll see. One thing I have thought about taking back to Denmark is the stuff about SIDS. I've never even heard of SIDS in Denmark, and I have thought to myself that I need to investigate what info we give in DK to new parents about it, if any, so that if we don't give any info or guidelines, then we should perhaps implement that information in our discharge routine. First step: figure out what it is called in Danish, since I'm pretty sure it's not called SIDS.
Easter closes everything here, so today I bought some groceries to get me through to Tuesday, but I am keeping my fingers crossed that the Egyptian place down the road will be open anyways. Hey D&C, name suggestion of the day: Hamish. I'm going to publish and then try to post some more photos. Thanks for the postcards that you have been sending, I've appreciated all the mail and hope everybody is doing well. I will try to get postcards back out to you folks this weekend.
Hot cross buns,
One a penny buns,
One a penny,
Two a penny,
Hot cross buns.
Do we have those in the US? They are all over the place here. Anyways, I had my first hot cross bun today, and it was delicious! Nobody uses butter around here, I suppose that would be a pain because it's too hot for it to sit out without it melting, but it gets too hard in the fridge. Instead they eat margarine, yuck.
Today I was supposed to follow our Lactation Consultant, as she is so properly called. (I accidentally referred to her as the Lactating Consultant for the first week, she got a kick out of that.) Instead I was left at the nursery for the last day, and on Tuesday I get to start in the High Dependency Unit, or HDU. It's funny how they say "h" down here. Instead of "aye-ch", they say "hey-ch". So when they say HDU it sounds like they are sneezing. "Heychdeeyoo!" Anyways, I will be there for a couple of weeks, then I move up again to ICU. Today was a good day, and I find that I don't have to be super busy to be happy about the day, I get a lot of satisfaction out of the patient (in this case parent) contact. Today I instructed a brand new father how to bathe his son in the incubator, and I helped him through it. He was so gentle it took three times as long to get it done, but it was really fun and satisfying to make the connection and to experience that baby's first bath with his terrified, but adoring, father. I turn a blind eye to the bad hygiejne (I think I spell that different every time - it's confusing in English and Danish), and I try to do the best I can for my babies. They actually have a radio on the nurse's desk playing a local station in the ICU, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't get any better as I move up the ward. We'll see. One thing I have thought about taking back to Denmark is the stuff about SIDS. I've never even heard of SIDS in Denmark, and I have thought to myself that I need to investigate what info we give in DK to new parents about it, if any, so that if we don't give any info or guidelines, then we should perhaps implement that information in our discharge routine. First step: figure out what it is called in Danish, since I'm pretty sure it's not called SIDS.
Easter closes everything here, so today I bought some groceries to get me through to Tuesday, but I am keeping my fingers crossed that the Egyptian place down the road will be open anyways. Hey D&C, name suggestion of the day: Hamish. I'm going to publish and then try to post some more photos. Thanks for the postcards that you have been sending, I've appreciated all the mail and hope everybody is doing well. I will try to get postcards back out to you folks this weekend.
posted by Abby at
12:55 AM
3 Comments:
SIDS = vuggedødsbørn?
http://www.farmorogborn.dk/artikler/artikel.asp?id=9
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Hot cross buns were an Easter staple when I was growing up - a little citron on them. I made them a few times when you were young, but obviously you don't remember that. They are delicious, but I'd sure prefer butter to margarine.
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