A Diagnostic Dilemma of Antiglutamic Acid Decarboxylase 65 (Anti-GAD 65) and Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Antibodies in a Girl Presenting with Acute-Onset Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Acute-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder can be challenging, especially when triggered by an underlying disease process. Clinicians often turn to Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS), but it is important to consider a broad differential in these patients. We present a case of a 9-year-old girl with acute-onset obsessive-compulsive behavior likely triggered by a post-infectious phenomenon that ultimately resolved following treatment with plasmapheresis.

What Is the Experience of Babywearing a NICU Graduate?

Objective: To understand the experiences of caregivers using baby carriers to hold their infant after discharge from the NICU.

Design: The qualitative research design was transcendental phenomenology.

Setting/local Problem: Caregiving of NICU graduates is associated with greater incidence of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder, which can impair caregivers' abilities to form secure attachments with their infants.