Do you have restricted visiting hours in labor and delivery?

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We restrict our visitors in L&D to 3 "support" people while in labor. We have a difficult time with visitors despite the fact that mom SIGNS a paper stating her 3 chosen folk. I was wondering what other facilities do in this day and age? We are consistently getting hit hard with Mr. Press and Mr. Ganey in the visitor section. Just looking for creative ways to keep control and make folks happy in the meantime. Thanks for any input.

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A case for homebirth, sounds to me. Lord.

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A case for homebirth, sounds to me. Lord.

Very true. Im sure our home birth and 6hr discharge rate is due to womens reluctance to be admitted to the post natal wards and I dont blame them. On several occasions Ive had to transfer women from our midwifery led unit to out consultant unit and their biggest concern is that they will most likely have to be admitted to the wards afterwards for post natal care (no LDRP rooms in the CLU)

I think, in the UK, we give excellent care to women ante natally, intra natally and post natally once they're home but the post natal care in our hospitals is pretty poor and definitely lets our service down (despite the back breaking work put in by the very short staffed midwife teams)

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