The NICU Logbook

After rounds, the numbers leave with you. Weight. A wean. “Good kangaroo.” The whiteboard gets wiped. NICU Logbook is that notebook on your phone: what the nurse said, a photo of the board, both ages. How old is she today, both ways: actual and adjusted. Log the weight they called out. Check off kangaroo, first feed, the next thing. Take a one-page note to the next visit. Stays on this phone. No account. $2.99 once. Not a medical device. This is for the recliner next to the isolette, not for a clinic system. Birth date and original due date as written. Notes you can type or dictate. Up to four photos on a note so the board is not only in the camera roll. A checklist in the order things usually happen here: first hold, weans, first feeds, eye exam, vaccines, follow-up, and a way to mark what does not apply at this NICU. Growth plots are preterm curves, not the term-baby chart in the…