Only 2 people (excluding DS's docs and nurses) were allowed at baby's bedside.
Only 2 non-parent visitors were allowed per day, with a total of 2 visits each per day, and had to be accompanied by a parent. - so if grandparents came to visit one day, they had to rotate who could come in with either DH or myself, and then had to trade off. Each grandparent could only go in twice per day. - make sense?
These were not adjusted for H1N1. These are the same rules year round.
That's maybe why I'm so aghast by what I saw on the special.
Re: What were your NICU rules?
ditto.
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I failed to mention these above, but those applied in our NICU as well. 3 minute scrub to elbows, and definitely no illnesses!
The nurses' station and sink were at the entrance.... no one could have made it past without scrubbing.
I'm that so many NICUs allow children at all...
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Only 3 people at DD's bedside at a time (but they let us have 4 a few times). Parents and grandparents could come 24/7. Anyone else could come between 8a-8p and had to be accompanied by at least 1 parent.
Also, anything brought into the NICU had to be sterilized. ?
ours was 2 visitors at the bedside- but they had exceptions for siblings. i would assume this is a special situation- and that the hospital is probably going to be getting a lot of good press from the show as well.
everyone had to scrub in too. but we could have as many per day as we wanted. (ie when the grandparents were visiting we all jsut took turns going in.)
due to H1N1, currently our NICU only allows the parents, no other visitors. My poor mom is devastated, as she has been at my house since December while I was on bedrest and was so excited to meet my baby girl, but has yet to see her, besides me holding her up to a window.
And we also have to scrub up right when we enter.
Yeah, even my DH said 'that would not fly out our NICU'...
Only 2 people at a time and 1 parent had to be there with any non parent visitor unless you were on a special list (only 4 people could be on the list). Plus, you had to wash your hands for 3 minutes prior to entering and you had to wear a protective hospital coat/scrubs EVERY time....
Also, no rings, watches or bracelets were allowed...all had to be removed, and no artificial nails. Finally, no children under the age of 12 were allowed in the NICU except on Saturdays for siblings at designated hours and they still had to wear a mask in order to be allowed in to visit.
Our NICU was very strict and very adamant about their rules...I was very pleased with them. And if they smelled smoke on you, they kicked you out- no questions asked.
I think the Duggar situation might have been b/c it was a tv special, but I still was shocked that they allowed all of those small children in there.