My hospital has bedbugs!!!

AndieM · January 2012

It's supposed to be under control, but apparently it's an ongoing problem, as visitors keep bringing them in. But they had some in one of the maternity rooms over New Years! Yuck! Imagine bringing bedbugs home with your new baby!?!?!?!

runrinserepeat · January 2012

Yuck, that would seriously creep me out.

hillbillysunshine · January 2012

Ew! But I imagine it happens more often than people know about with the current "problem" of bedbugs in the U.S.

Sept1799 · January 2012

Nasty, do you have another hosptial you can deliever at?

noryang · January 2012

OK. This may be the single greatest reason for me to have my homebirth. GROSS.

pinksweetpea2 · January 2012

noryang:
OK. This may be the single greatest reason for me to have my homebirth. GROSS.

Word. I really don't think people understand how dirty hospitals can be. My good friend caught staph after her c-section last year and had to be re-hospitalized a week after birth...and even after she was discharged she was still sick for 4 MONTHS.

halo_tx · January 2012

Ewww, that's so gross!

nonoemily · January 2012

pinksweetpea2:
noryang:
OK. This may be the single greatest reason for me to have my homebirth. GROSS.
Word. I really don't think people understand how dirty hospitals can be. My good friend caught staph after her c-section last year and had to be re-hospitalized a week after birth...and even after she was discharged she was still sick for 4 MONTHS.

That's disgusting.

I used to take my grandmother to her doctor's appointments (before I got pregnant) and I couldn't believe how nasty those clinics were. It reminded me of why I hate hospitals. It was like riding the city bus.

I really, really hope you don't get bedbugs, OP. I've never had them, but I hear it's harder to get rid of than scabies. Nasty.

courtzf · January 2012

It is really gross, but I work in a hospital in a city with a huge bedbug problem, and it is really pretty common. The hospital has policies in place to treat the areas affected by bedbugs, but they can't control whether patients treat them in their own homes (which they usually don't or do ineffectively) and they continue to be brought back. If you're worried about it when you deliver, keep your clothing, baby blankets, etc. in a tied up garbage or plastic bag and wash everything in hot water and dry it when you get home. Keeping them in the bag with no air is supposedly supposed to kill them and heat is the best way to kill them when they are on clothing & linens.

AndieM · January 2012

courtzf:
It is really gross, but I work in a hospital in a city with a huge bedbug problem, and it is really pretty common. The hospital has policies in place to treat the areas affected by bedbugs, but they can't control whether patients treat them in their own homes (which they usually don't or do ineffectively) and they continue to be brought back. If you're worried about it when you deliver, keep your clothing, baby blankets, etc. in a tied up garbage or plastic bag and wash everything in hot water and dry it when you get home. Keeping them in the bag with no air is supposedly supposed to kill them and heat is the best way to kill them when they are on clothing & linens.

PP, thanks for the tips! I really thought about a home birth, but the idea terrifies MH. I wonder how hard it will be to inspect all the soft surfaces in the room while in active labour... Stick out tongue

mle5d · January 2012

Eww!!

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