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Elizabeth043086
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How Far Away Is Your Hospital
Elizabeth043086
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Distance & Time to get there. Thinking of switching to a more natural-birth-friendly ob, but I'm scared that hospital is too far. Thanks.
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Re: How Far Away Is Your Hospital
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#4 10/2019
Well, my hospital is about 2-2.5 hours from my house...or 180ish miles. From my work it's about 110ish miles or 1.5 hours. Its a commute :-)
I have to deliver at a specific hospital per my insurance. Honestly, if I didn't have this insurance, I wouldn't have even thought to deliver there, but they do have a level 3 NICU and, from what I've read, a great maternity ward.
The hospital is about 15 minutes from my house. The hospital I originally wanted to deliver, where I delivered DS, is a good 30 minutes or so.
How far is the hospital that you're thinking of switching to? If something were to go wrong, or happen very quickly where you didn't think you'd get to the hospital in time, you could always be transported by ambulance. Not the most ideal situation, and I don't know about your area, but paramedics have a OB/GYN rotation and are trained on how to handle situations, even high risk situations.
With DD we were 45 mins away (highway). We lived in a small town with crappy medical care so we drove to a better hospital. That's where my dr was too.
With this one, we've since moved to a major city and are less than 15 mins away.
When it comes to my children I have always been extremely cautious especially at the hospital when they are born. The moment they wheel the baby away, my DH follows until they bring baby back to me...I never return baby to the nursery, the baby remains with me until d/c and if the baby needs to be taken away for any testing, my DH follows. I've heard and read of too many horrific incidents and don't take chances.
sorry! Posted under the wrong post...don't know what's wrong with the board lately.
with your hospital being so far what are your plans when labor starts? or will the drive not be a factor?
From home, it's about 25 miles away, 45ish minutes (with no traffic). From work it's just a few miles and 10 minutes away.
There is a hospital closer to where I live, but it's smaller and not where my doctor is.
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Probably less than 3 miles. Actually, you can see the lights for the helicopter landing pad from our house.
The hospital we delivered DS at was just over 30 minutes away. More if there was traffic. That was no biggie.
Mine is <10 minutes including parking, probably 5 if my husband drops me off at the door. It's very close.
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My hospital is 10 miles from home, 5 miles from work and 15 miles from DH's work.
As far as time goes it wouldn't take more than 15 minutes to get there.
I'm about 25 mile away from the hospital. I have 3 other hospitals closer to me. I choose to go to the furthest hospital because it has a neonatal intensive care unit and they're a bigger hospital and I feel they would be more able to handle me in case something happened. (I have a pretty sever back condition.) It'll take about 45 mins to get there.
And all of this could change, because we are moving in October and we don't know where we're going yet. My husband got a job with the state police and it could be anywhere in the state of MI. So who knows!!
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We haven?t decided on where the RCS will be. There are 3 hospitals to chose from and the furthest away is 15mins drive.
With DS we chose the closest family orientated hospital and it was 10 minutes drive away.
The hospital where I have all my appointments is just down the hill from our appartment less that 5mins walk away.
Everything is close by here as its such a small island. DH?s "commute" to work is 20 mins. We get itchy feet if we are in the car longer than 30 mins at a time