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Questions for Hospital Tour?

JenniferF11JenniferF11 member
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Hi MoMs! Another question for you lovely ladies tonight! Any special questions I should ask on my hospital tour related to twins? I'll definitely be asking about the NICU specifically, but any other tips?
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  • ashleighltashleighlt member
    As a neonatal nurse I would ask why the standard test are they they do for twins. Our policy states that we must draw certain labs...blood sugar, retic... As a soon to be MoM I'm lucky to already know this but not many other mothers do and I feel they sho
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  • ashleighltashleighlt member
    ...one more thing. If you are having a boy and getting a circumsion done in the hospital I would ask what there policies are about numbing his little thing. Some doctors use a lidocaine cream let that set and then use a lidocaine shot before ther circ. as
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  • carrotcake06carrotcake06 member
    I asked about delivery procedures: if I'm attempting a vaginal delivery, do I deliver in the OR? Do you require an epidural? Where is the NICU floor compared to the recovery floor? Is constant monitoring required or is intermittent okay?

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  • MuseumMavenMuseumMaven member
    I think the most important thing is to let your tour leader know that you are having twins and ask how things will differ. For example, on my hospital tour they explained that moms deliver in the same room in which they labor, but for twins I would deliv
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  • AB87AB87 member
    imageashleighlt:
    As a neonatal nurse I would ask why the standard test are they they do for twins. Our policy states that we must draw c
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  • MichelleDisMichelleDis member

    Great questions guys.  Writing them all down.  I am debating whether to do a tour or not.  Not sure DH will be able to go with me, but my BF might (she's due just a few weeks ahead of me).  I've done the tour before with my singleto

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  • NDGOIRISHNDGOIRISH member

    I just finished my tour today - so glad I did it. I feel so much more at ease knowing where we will go and how friendly/helpful the staff is.

    I didn't realize we would deliver in the OR regardless of a vaginal or ceasarean birth. 

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  • MedmessMedmess

    The tour was totally worth it.  I asked several questions related to difference for me... the only twin mom on the tour.  I was worried because the post pardom rooms are not very big and was trying to figure out how that would work with two.&

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