I'm just wondering, I had my daughter in 2001 and when I asked if she could stay with me they said it was policy to monitor her in the nursery at least 5 hours. Then they told me there was another delivery coming in and I was going to have to get out of the nice big delivery room (which was right across from the nursery) and be moved "down the hall." I wanted to walk but they wouldn't allow it and they wheeled me waaaay down to a dingy little room at the other end of the unit. Since I was still feeling the effects of the epidural I went right to sleep afterwards and when they wheeled her into my room about 6 hrs. later they informed me they gave her a bottle (even though she was to be breastfed).
Now, there were no ill-effects and I'm not complaining, I'm not high maintenance at all, but are there any pointers you could give an expectant mother so she may possibly avoid any conflicts or confusion next time?
For example, can a new mom request to be called to the nursery if the baby starts crying and wants to eat, rather than them just giving the baby a bottle to shut it up?
Or, if she is able, do most hospital policies allow her to come stay with the baby in the nursery during the time baby is being monitored?
In the hospital I work in we have our own OR, if there is an emergency and we have to use the main OR normally the problems are pretty extensive and the patients stay on med/surg floors for telemetry. It's unfortunate, but we also do not allow those patients to see their baby. If our babies leave the floor they are not permitted back to the OB floor. Our babies go to the nursery qshift for vitals and the risk of infection from one baby to another is too high if a baby leaves the floor. However the father is always allowed to go with the patient to recovery. Is there another hospital thats closer that has a special OR for the c/s patients on the L&D floor?
At the hospital I had my kids at there is a room for L&D and then a seperate area for postpartum. And in my case another floor for C-section patients. My understanding in my case was that the Labor/Delivery rooms were full and that is why I had to recover in the PACU (or wherever I was)... I had a planned c-section... they knew I was coming, they had me all set up in the delivery room then wheeled me down to the 1st floor for surgery. By the time I was done... apparently... the delivery rooms were full and I had to go to the PACU and then be sent to postpartum once I was done there.... :trout:
I volunteer at this hospital now, and it's still this way. With my 3rd (2 yrs ago)... I DEMANDED that I be sent back up to the delivery room so I could be in there with my husband and my baby. The nurse was SOOOOOO nice and she gauranteed me my room back. After my surgery... I was transported upstairs and I had my baby nursing within the hour.
There is another hospital about 20 minutes further away... I don't know what their birth unit is like though.
This setup is great unless you are having a section. It just isn't fair...
It stinks that you were put in a situation like that... A few weeks ago we had a couple of people laboring, delivering, and getting ready for a c/s in TRIAGE.. no good! We felt so bad for them, but there wasn't much we could do. I work at a small hospital, about 160 beds, and only about 20 on maternity including the triage beds. We were full that day, it was unfortunate, but nothing else we could do. The woman that labor'd and delivered in triage was fine, she didn't care what was going on.. my guess was it had something to do with the amount of pain she was in, but even the family was happy. However, the woman having a c/s (which was planned) was not happy. When she came for our tour they told her she would have a private room (and in 99.9% of the cases you do... we are not usually full) but it didn't work that way so she wasn't happy. We had the choice of leaving her in triage until the c/s team was ready or taking her to our PACU we figured she'd be happier in triage.. PACU is freezing! Guess we were wrong? Sucks, but nothing we could do... we felt bad but she didn't think we felt bad enough.. she wanted us to kick another patient out.. Sucks when things don't work like they normally do
At the hospital I had my kids at there is a room for L&D and then a seperate area for postpartum. And in my case another floor for C-section patients. My understanding in my case was that the Labor/Delivery rooms were full and that is why I had to recover in the PACU (or wherever I was)... I had a planned c-section... they knew I was coming, they had me all set up in the delivery room then wheeled me down to the 1st floor for surgery. By the time I was done... apparently... the delivery rooms were full and I had to go to the PACU and then be sent to postpartum once I was done there.... :trout:
I volunteer at this hospital now, and it's still this way. With my 3rd (2 yrs ago)... I DEMANDED that I be sent back up to the delivery room so I could be in there with my husband and my baby. The nurse was SOOOOOO nice and she gauranteed me my room back. After my surgery... I was transported upstairs and I had my baby nursing within the hour.
There is another hospital about 20 minutes further away... I don't know what their birth unit is like though.
This setup is great unless you are having a section. It just isn't fair...
I'm willing to bet that the relative safety of formula wayyyyy surpasses the safety of an invasive IV catheter.
Oh, I agree, I think so too. But I know a lot of people that could give a whole lecture on how formula is not safer, yada yada. All I am saying is that if the mom feels strongly about it and it is a baby that might have a low bs, to discuss this with her and let her decide. Before the birth, so these issues aren't an emergency, (where the baby is gonna seize if we don't get the sugar up NOW.) Avoid all that fighting about it. As I said before, I would do formula, even a bottle, before I did IV for my baby. It just should be moms choice if at all possible.
Oh, I agree, I think so too. But I know a lot of people that could give a whole lecture on how formula is not safer, yada yada. All I am saying is that if the mom feels strongly about it and it is a baby that might have a low bs, to discuss this with her and let her decide. Before the birth, so these issues aren't an emergency, (where the baby is gonna seize if we don't get the sugar up NOW.) Avoid all that fighting about it. As I said before, I would do formula, even a bottle, before I did IV for my baby. It just should be moms choice if at all possible.
I believe I am a very reasonable person and if there was a reason they felt baby should have a bottle I would not have objected. I didn't even get upset when the nurse told me after the fact baby had been given a bottle. In retrospect, though, I would have liked them to tell me about it. But maybe we can work things out better this time, if they won't let me keep the baby I'll just see if they will let me know when he needs to eat.
My weekly OB appointment is tomorrow and the doctor said he would see about scheduling an induction a week before my estimated date of confinement (which is June 25). The way my ankles are swollen and as uncomfortable as I am this is sure good news.
I had a planned c-section... they knew I was coming, they had me all set up in the delivery room then wheeled me down to the 1st floor for surgery. By the time I was done... apparently... the delivery rooms were full and I had to go to the PACU and then be sent to postpartum once I was done there.... :trout:
I'm willing to bet that the relative safety of formula wayyyyy surpasses the safety of an invasive IV catheter.
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At the hospital I had my kids at there is a room for L&D and then a seperate area for postpartum. And in my case another floor for C-section patients. My understanding in my case was that the Labor/Delivery rooms were full and that is why I had to recover in the PACU (or wherever I was)...
I had a planned c-section... they knew I was coming, they had me all set up in the delivery room then wheeled me down to the 1st floor for surgery. By the time I was done... apparently... the delivery rooms were full and I had to go to the PACU and then be sent to postpartum once I was done there.... :trout:
I volunteer at this hospital now, and it's still this way. With my 3rd (2 yrs ago)... I DEMANDED that I be sent back up to the delivery room so I could be in there with my husband and my baby. The nurse was SOOOOOO nice and she gauranteed me my room back. After my surgery... I was transported upstairs and I had my baby nursing within the hour.
There is another hospital about 20 minutes further away... I don't know what their birth unit is like though.
This setup is great unless you are having a section. It just isn't fair...