MBF 6/16

TugboatSheila · June 2014

To expand on the hospital talk pur hospital has a locked down floor (buzz in), not sure about check in but no visiting hours. The hours are whenever mom says it is OK to have visitors and however many she wants. But ours also has GPS umbilical cord clamps so that if anyone took the baby and tried to get past the locked door the whole floor and elevators would shut down and an alarm would go off. I am not worried about this happening and it sounds totally intense but I think if you had any sort of concern for safety it would bring you comfort.

AmandaAug506 · June 2014

mrscurlygurl said:

ksspiff said:

I just toured the maternity ward this evening MBF: they do ABSOLUTELY NO monitoring of visitors outside of labor and two hours after delivery. People could wander in any time, night or day and the staff rusn ZERO interference. Visitors don't even have to check-in! I don't have any crazy family, so I hope this won't be a problem, but it still seems pretty outrageous that nobody cares about anyone's crazy family. Visiting hours aren't enforced, unless kids are being too loud after 9 pm. THIS IS CRAZY, right?
Hmm...I visited my sister on Saturday after she had her baby on Friday and I never had to check in anywhere. I never thought twice about it. I don't think people have to check in at that hospital where I deliver, but I'm not 100% sure on that. I guess I'd never thought about it.

You dont have to check in at my hospital, but you have to be buzzed in and out of the Maternitiy wing by the nurse at the nurses station. You may get annoying visitors, but at least noone can get out with your baby.....

[Deleted User] · June 2014

AmandaAug506 said:

You dont have to check in at my hospital, but you have to be buzzed in and out of the Maternitiy wing by the nurse at the nurses station. You may get annoying visitors, but at least noone can get out with your baby.....

I think this is how it is at ours, too, unless it's changed in the last 3 years. The unit is locked and visitors have to be buzzed in but I don't think they have to sign in anywhere. They keep the alarm on the baby so people can't walk out with the newborns but I don't think visitors even need to show ID.

They have some rules but I don't think they're super strict about them (probably depends who is on) - no more than 2 visitors at a time from 1-8 pm, no non-sibling visitors under the age of 12, siblings need to provide proof of varicella vaccine to visit (I would be surprised if they enforce this but I'm going to leave a copy of DS1's record with my mom just in case).

lks18 · June 2014

honeybee434 said:
They scheduled my c-section today for Thursday of next week. I'm officially freaking out. I tried to get it moved to the beginning of the following week, but the holiday weekend is making it difficult because things are already booked. My OB said there is a chance something could open up, but not for sure....and I did have the option to just wait and see if she turns and not schedule anything, but then I deal with the risk of an emergency c section if I go into labor and it esp being difficult with it happening on a holiday weekend. I know it's probably better to have it next week so I don't have to deal with the holiday weekend at the hospital even for recovery, but it makes me sad to know that she only has 10 days to turn around and then I will lose all chance to experience labor/vaginal birth. I know in my head it's best for the baby to do it this way, but it still sucks. I've also never had surgery, except for my wisdom teeth removal, so I think that's what's making me the most scared.

So then next week when I go in for my last "has she turned" u/s, u don't know if I should just accept the next day c section, or fight to see if they have something Monday or Tuesday of the next weekend. *sigh*

I don't think waiting for labor will necessarily make your c-section an emergency. I'm having a breech issue that could result in a cs but my OB prefers to wait for labor to come on naturally. That's a signal that baby is ready to come out, and also a breech may not turn until labor begins. Maybe they'd have you come in earlier in labor to check for baby's positioning?

Skeemer · June 2014

@ Everyone Thank you all so much for expressing concern about DS & for the encouragement yesterday. He's doing much better today & is done with his medication. ((hugs))

mary1217 · June 2014

Emilyfae said:

mary1217 said:

I have several of them today..

1. We are car shopping - I have only had my car for 2 years but over the last 6 months it has had a lot of electrical issues and they keeping coming so we are terrified of what is next. We cannot find anything we like. We were at a dealership yesterday and found something but they were low balling us on my trade - they wanted to give us $2,500 less than what their system was even telling them to give us. Then they called today to talk about a different car but still not wanting to give us what we want for the trade. Car shopping is not what I wanted to do 36+ weeks pregnant.

2. My husband is in the reserves and he recently spent 6 weeks activated and in Japan. They really screwed up his pay. He didn't get any pay the entire month of May and then when he did get paid it wasn't the correct amount. He went in to fix it and that pay didn't come in for another week and a half, oh and it still wasn't right. So he went back in and asked about it and about family separation pay he was supposed to get along with the other issues that needed to be fixed - oh you have to fill a form out for that. So why didn't you tell him that. The guy knows he is married I actually used to work with his wife. He is just lazy. I feel like if you screw up someone's pay that bad then you should go without being paid and then have you pay be messed up. eye for an eye. Just not what we need with the baby almost here.

DH is active duty and they didn't give him family separation because they assumed I was hanging out at the RASP barracks during his training. First of all, women can't be Rangers and second, pregnant civilians can't live in RASP barracks. What? I feel your pain.

Yep. Takes forever to get our pay straightened out, but the second they notice they have been slightly over paying you for months they take it immediately and expect you to live on $500/month. This happened to me and my ex when we were less than a month from deployment and had just moved oconus so money was already tight.

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