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May 2014 Moms
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Does your hospital have a nursery and will you utilize it?
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Does your hospital have a nursery and will you utilize it? 225 votes
Yes, there is a nursery and we will send baby there at times.
30%
68 votes
Yes, there is a nursery but we will not send baby there.
45%
102 votes
No, there is no nursery.
18%
41 votes
SS
6%
14 votes
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Re: Does your hospital have a nursery and will you utilize it?
BFP#3 9-4-13 Benjamin Lee born 4-28-14
Yes my hospital has one and yes I will use it. Last time my doctor encouraged us to utilize the nursery. We formula feed due to medical reasons, if I was BF I may consider keeping baby in my room. With DS I sent him to the nursery every night of my 5 night stay and will do the same again. I slept several hours every night and went home feeling pretty well. I think the extra sleep contributed to the speedy recovery I had from my c-section. Also, the pain medicine that I was given in the hospital after surgery made me very sleepy, so I didn't think it was a good idea to have the baby in the room with me in case I didn't hear him.
LCT - 5.15.14 ~ 9lbs, 22.5 inches
BFP # 1 - 12/19/09 EDD 08/27/10 - D&C 1/26/10 @ 9w5d
BFP # 2 - 06/05/10 EDD 02/17/11, DS1 born on 2/14/11
BFP # 3 - 04/10/13 EDD 12/21/13 - D&C 05/15/13 @ 8w4d
BFP # 4 - 07/27/13 EDD 04/08/14 - CP 07/29/13
BFP # 5 - 09/14/13 EDD 05/28/14, DS2 born on 5/22/14
With ds, they had a nursery and we sent him to the nursery overnight. In hindsight, I don't think this was the best for attempting to BF. My milk had not come in, but I think we probably should have been "trying" more often. And, frankly, it isn't like you are STTN in the hospital anyway. Or, at least, I wasn't. I had to get vital checks.
2011: FSH 13.3 & E 99; AMH 0.54 2nd FSH 6.2 E 40's AFC: 8
BFP from Clomid/IUI ~ Pre-e and IUGR during pregnancy ~ DS born 9/4/12
Feb./March 2013: AMH less than 0.16 (undectable) and AFC = 4;
BFP from supps ~ DS#2 due May 2014
May 2014 January Siggy Challenge:
I just had lunch with a friend who had a baby at the same hospital last year and she was telling me they were shocked when the got a Nursery fees bill from the hospital a few months after they paid all of their delivery bills. Apparently my hospital charges by the hour for keeping the baby in the nursery. I'm floored. Is that normal? If so, I'm definitely not sending him there for any reason. I feel like that should just be included..right?
BFP#3 9-4-13 Benjamin Lee born 4-28-14
With my first I learned never to say never and not to rely too heavily on my own plans and wishes.
DS: 11/8/11 | 9 lb 7 oz, 22 in
DD: 5/22/14 | 9 lb 9 oz, 21.5 in
8/15 FET #1 - transferred 1 thawed embryo - Pregnant with Baby C, it's a girl! Due April 2016.
Married Rob May 23rd 2008 * Munchkin due May 5th 2014 * Getting back on the waiting list for domestic infant adoption May 2015 * Apparently May is our month!
No, it's not normal for them to charge you for the use of the nursery when you give birth. They didn't charge us anything above and beyond DS's normal care when we were in the hospital and I don't know anyone who was charged for their child to be in the nursery at any hospital where we live (NY).
My new hospital, though, lets you keep baby in the room if they are level 1 NICU and has a breast milk bank so if we have the same problems again it will be totally different.
I could have slept all night if they had not been doing checks on me. I think because I was pre-e and had high BP, I had to get checked often. It was annoying and, IMO, really unnecessary.
Edit: By trying more often, what I meant is that I think we should have done more skin-to-skin. He could not latch and I was encouraged to pump, but I think even doing frequent skin-to-skin while pumping might have helped. I sort of figured this out later on, but no one really ever told me (despite having an LC) that I really needed to pumping very, very often in the early days even if it was dry pumping.
2011: FSH 13.3 & E 99; AMH 0.54 2nd FSH 6.2 E 40's AFC: 8
BFP from Clomid/IUI ~ Pre-e and IUGR during pregnancy ~ DS born 9/4/12
Feb./March 2013: AMH less than 0.16 (undectable) and AFC = 4;
BFP from supps ~ DS#2 due May 2014
May 2014 January Siggy Challenge:
2011: FSH 13.3 & E 99; AMH 0.54 2nd FSH 6.2 E 40's AFC: 8
BFP from Clomid/IUI ~ Pre-e and IUGR during pregnancy ~ DS born 9/4/12
Feb./March 2013: AMH less than 0.16 (undectable) and AFC = 4;
BFP from supps ~ DS#2 due May 2014
May 2014 January Siggy Challenge: