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Weird thing my friend said

KZBurnworthKZBurnworth
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My friend says some off the wall things regularly, she thinks differently then the "normal" person and doesn't have a filter. She had a baby recently and made a comment about being creeped out sleeping/staying in the hospital becuse there are babies being born and people dying at the same time. Like the beginning and the end meeting up at that same place. And also sleeping in the same building with dead bodies. Never once did any of those things cross my mind, until she mentioned it! So next I'm sure it will be on my mind, thanks a lot!
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  • EXL311EXL311 member

    My SIL thinks the same thing.  I hadn't thought of it like that but it doesn't bother me.  Morgues tend to be in the basement so at least you could figure out how many floors are between you and the deceased. Stick out tongue

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  • RobinSparkles214RobinSparkles214 member

    That is definitely a weird thing to think of.

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  • KatieLG04KatieLG04
    The day my DS was born, I opened the newspaper and saw that a client had died in the same hospital the day before.  It crossed my mind how strange it was that his life ended in the same place my child's began in a matter of 24 hours.  Otherwise, I hadn't really thought about it the way your friend did.
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  • ljanette85ljanette85 member
    isnt it freaky?? thats why i went with the birthing center (well one of the reasons). i worked in health care and mostly saw ER's and whenever I see the major hospitals around here I think of sick dying people... not new life and birth. It may be odd but its how i feel...
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  • Althea5880Althea5880

    What I find eeird is when healthy, low risk mothers give birth in hospitals. Personally, I feel that hospitals are for sick, hurt or dying people, not for babies. 

    But I definitely feel that two rounds of cancer treatment might make me feel differently about hospitals than the average person. 

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  • winomom22winomom22 member
    That is weird. That thought never occurred to me and I work in a hospital. The psych unit I work at is right down the hall from the birth center. We have actually had patients who have eloped run through the birthing area to try to get out. I was just in a whole different world and so wrapped up in my new babies that my mind didn't wander to think of those things. 
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  • shibby00shibby00 member
    Honestly when I was in the hospital with DD I kept wondering how many people had died on the sheets I was using, lol.  I hate hospitals in general, they make me think of sick and dying people.  I think it's kind of funny now!
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  • sherpasherpa member

    The hospital I gave birth at has a maternity center next door to the actual hospital.

    I don't think sick or dying people are creepy at all. Maybe it's because of my religious beliefs but I think it's peaceful. I was crying and sad my deceased Dad did not get to meet my children; until my sister told me, "Dad already met them, he already knows them." I found that odd but very comforting.

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  • FriskyPandaFriskyPanda
    imageAlthea5880:

    What I find eeird is when healthy, low risk mothers give birth in hospitals. Personally, I feel that hospitals are for sick, hurt or dying people, not for babies. 

    I'm the weird one then ;)  

    The more I've learned about childbirth, since having my daughter, the more I wish I had labored at home longer.  It was never an option to not do the hospital thing (DH's ex had very complicated pregnancies and deliveries so he would never have been on board), but I learned so much through other moms since giving birth.  I think it's a shame that more information isn't common knowledge. 

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