A NURSE SAVED HER LIFE

https://transforminghealth.org/2022/06/28/pregnant-and-on-heroin-when-a-nurse-changed-her-life-she-worries-others-wont-get-help/ WATCH AND LISTEN TO THIS ADDICT WHO BECAME PREFNANT AND WS HWELPED BY HER NURSE TO GET OVER HER ADDIXCTION TO PROTECT HER SON S OR GIRL S NEWBORN . A NURSE AND HER PATIENT Stuck in the middle are registered nurses such as Lynn Watt. She remembered the first time she met Katie Labus, who was just a few days into medication assisted treatment and about 16 weeks pregnant. Labus wanted to have a healthy pregnancy, Watt said. “She just kept saying, ‘I want to be a good mom.’ I mean, how can you not want to help someone who says that?” Watt helped Labus understand her pregnancy and deal with complications as they arose. She also became the point person for the many services Labus needed, such as nutritional advice, drug and alcohol counseling and therapy to address her underlying trauma. Then, Watt’s plans blew up. After weeks of earning her client’s trust, Labus admitted police in three counties were looking for her. Watt knew she needed to do something to keep Labus out of jail. “That would have killed her,” Watt said. “If she delivered that baby in prison, locked to a bed, and they took him from her, that would have killed her. I can guarantee she would have gone out and overdosed.” Together, they developed a plan to show the judge she was working hard to stay clean and healthy. Watt wrote a letter that Labus could show a judge. She got others to do the same. She helped her put together a binder of inform