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Does anyone elses hospital not have a nursery?

Lindsey7521Lindsey7521
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At ours, they built a new Women's Pavilion a few years ago and they no longer have a nursery so basically the baby stays in your room the whole time...which is good, preparing you for real life. I just thought it was strange.
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  • Luv-a-BugLuv-a-Bug
    Ours is only staffed at night.. I think they encourage you to keep LO with you though.
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  • mooetamooeta member
    Alot of hospitals are moving in this direction.  I guess they figure your first night with a baby shouldn't be when you take them home, that you should start getting the hang of it while you have help vs when you are home alone.
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  • jescgrljescgrl member
    ours is two sided. one side is for women who don't want their babies in a nursey. It has larger rooms and the baby stays in the room the whole time. The other side has a lot smaller rooms but you can send the baby to the nursery whenever you'd like (if you wanted to walk down to the cafeteria and eat etc.)
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  • Jeni182Jeni182 member

    My sister had my nephew there and I think if you're desperate enough they'll take the baby and keep it at the nurses station. I thought it was really weird that they didn't have one either.

    I'm giving birth at the other hospital and they have a nursery, but they encourage the Mom to keep the baby in the room with her. I'd rather go to your hospital as  I'm more familiar with it and it's literally less than a minute from my house and they have a NICU. My hospital doesn't have a NICU so if (god forbid) something was wrong the baby would have to be taken to the other hospital while I sit around and wait to be discharged.

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  • heather121709heather121709
    Thats so strange, everyone Ive talked to says to take advantage of the nursery and try to get some rest because once you get home you have no one to take the baby from you for a few hours to get some rest.
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  • nolabride0605nolabride0605

    Mine doesn't have a nursery, either. They have a level II and level III NICU, but that's it. I am not crazy about this because I will be having a c-section, and I would like to send DH home at night so he can be with our 3 year old and so that he can get a good night's rest. I wouldn't be able to get up to take care of DS if he is in the room at night. With our DD, I sent her back to the nursery at night and they would bring her to me and wake me up when it was time to feed her.

    Oh well - we will see how it goes. It's only a few nights :)

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  • fellesferiefellesferie member

    With DS, my hospital had a nursery, but we didn't ever use it.

    I was in active labor for ~12 hours (pushed for 4 hours!), and then between DS only wanting to sleep while being held and nurses in and out of the room all night, no one got any sleep. 

    My parents ended up holding DS for 2-3 hours the next morning while I slept. Had they not been there I MIGHT have used a nursery, but I think I would have felt bad/weird sending him away to strangers. 

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  • Lindsey7521Lindsey7521

    imageheather121709:
    Thats so strange, everyone Ive talked to says to take advantage of the nursery and try to get some rest because once you get home you have no one to take the baby from you for a few hours to get some rest.

    That whats everyone everyone keeps telling me...and I'm like I cant do that...there is no nursery!

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  • justrachetjustrachet member
    imageNOLAbride0605:

    Mine doesn't have a nursery, either. They have a level II and level III NICU, but that's it.

    This is how ours is, too.

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  • ibisibis member
    Our hospital does prefer that you keep baby with you, but there is a nursery - they at least need one to take babies after a C section while you recover (I would think all hospitals would have that?). You can ask them to take the baby to the nursery so you can catch a little sleep, but they like the baby to stay with you at all times.
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  • madeleines_mommymadeleines_mommy member

    I never sent my DD to the nursery... only the two times they had to take her for tests and whatnot.

    There is no way I would send baby off alone for no reason! You wait for so long to meet them!

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  • Irish2Italn13Irish2Italn13
    Ours doesn't.  The baby stays with us in the room the whole time.  Might as well get used to it right away? 
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  • 12bailey1812bailey18 member
    Yeah, we do not have a nursery either, the baby stays in the room with us. We can choose to have the nurses take the baby at night to give us a break, they just watch them at the 'nurses station.' 

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