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greenluckcharm · November 2014

Hi everyone, I'm a lurker, I never did an Intro but I have been following all along.... I'm due Nov. 21st

Anyway. I was scheduled for a c/section today, this would be my second. I had to be at the hospital today at 5 am. so no drinking and eating after 9 pm for me last night. I get there, i'm all prepped, guy is standing there to give me my spinal, and the phone rings.... its my dr. she said they made a mistake and they can't deliver the baby today. They messed up the dates, and they can't legally do the c section until tomorrow. She told me that I should go to Village Inn, and come back tomorrow. (she did not even come in and tell me herself. I got a phone call!!!)

REALLY????

I told her she could schedule me tomorrow but I may not be there. I told her I was going to go to the University. So today I went and picked up all of my medical records, and the University is going to deliver me on Monday.

Did I overreact?? What would you have done??

sweetbabyrahe · November 2014

I would have been very annoyed but I agree with @lissydee‌ that I would not switch doctors and hospitals. I'd rather have a doctor and practice familiar with me and baby's issues/needs than worry about waiting one more day.

lesliegolem · November 2014

I don't blame you for being annoyed/irritated at all. However I probably wouldn't have switched doctors/hospitals personally. Just would rather deliver with someone I am familiar with and I wouldn't want to wait until Monday to deliver when I could deliver tomorrow. But what's done is done, I'd just try to relax until Monday now unless you're starting to feel like you made a mistake.

Also it would have been nice if she told you in person but realistically so many Dr's are overbooked and have other issues come up so I can understand the phone call but also understand your annoyance.

MGM81 · November 2014

I think the point was the Dr. just made a "call" I understand the 39week legal/insurance deal but I have two kids & need families help with school ect if you made arrangements and everything I would have been pissed!

What a mess - I would have called and spoke with her or complained and asked for her to call you.

Go back tomorrow and get the VIP treatment/hook up - she owes you now

silverwings72 · November 2014

greenluckcharm said:
Hi everyone, I'm a lurker, I never did an Intro but I have been following all along.... I'm due Nov. 21st

Anyway. I was scheduled for a c/section today, this would be my second. I had to be at the hospital today at 5 am. so no drinking and eating after 9 pm for me last night. I get there, i'm all prepped, guy is standing there to give me my spinal, and the phone rings.... its my dr. she said they made a mistake and they can't deliver the baby today. They messed up the dates, and they can't legally do the c section until tomorrow. She told me that I should go to Village Inn, and come back tomorrow. (she did not even come in and tell me herself. I got a phone call!!!)

REALLY????

I told her she could schedule me tomorrow but I may not be there. I told her I was going to go to the University. So today I went and picked up all of my medical records, and the University is going to deliver me on Monday.

Did I overreact?? What would you have done??

I think this is just a little dramatic. Just a tad. I think part of becoming a parent is understanding that we can't control everything and learning how to roll with the punches.

jillybean7582 · November 2014

You definitely overreacted. I get being slightly annoyed at the mistake and it being inconvenient with other kids but to swit dr.and hospital over it is overkill in my opinion.

I had a RCS scheduled for last Friday, FIL drove 5hrs to be in town to watch older DS for the 4 days we would ve at the hospiral. I got a call at 7am (was suppose to be there at 9am) Friday that they had to cancel my RSC because they were at capacity and had no open post partum rooms. I was given thw choice to reschedule for Sat, Sun, or Mon.

We chose to reschedule foe Sat. I was bummed I had to wait another day but we made the most of it and enjoyed a quality family day with FIL and DS. We had to rearrange who would care for our DS the last day we would be at the hospital as FIL had to be back to work.

The hospital sent us a huge bouquet of flowers after delivery and the dirwctor of nursing came to visit and personally apoligize because in her words "we never cancel schedule c-section, we bump them time slots for emergency but never cancel completely."

While it was nice for them to do so and I appreciated the sentiment I also thought it was a bit over the top. I guess now I know why they would do so, if people act like you on a normal basis that is scary and sad.

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