Postpartum Hospital Rooms

Re: Postpartum Hospital Rooms

• FrecklesInside member

  January 2015

  ToasterCat said:

  I don't want to come off like a terrible snob but I can't imagine trying to recover and establish anything not in a private room. Especially since directly post partum can be a bit of a horrorshow

  This. I seriously cannot imagine. I was half naked...or wholly naked like all the time. My boobs were always out, I was limping half naked to the bathroom, bleeding a shit ton... This is why I don't get people who have live in visitors after birth. But damn, fuck staying with a stranger the first day or two, I seriously could not. Also, healing from my c-section, K always got up and handed me the baby in the MOTN. And I couldn't have done my first nights of parenting without him...

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• chelc32188 member

  January 2015

  @totesmcgotes - are you from Central IL?

  
  

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• FrecklesInside member

  January 2015

  Also, I was super emotional and crying a lot, and that is personal. And I had trouble with E crying a ton the first two nights, why should another mom deal with that, and why should I deal with her crying infant? No one would get any sleep, ever. And her visitors in and out past all my personal shit? Fuck that. The idea of a shared room post-partum actually makes me angry....

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• Skrittens member

  January 2015

  My hospital has private PP rooms and separate delivery rooms, but the overflow delivery rooms and recovery rooms (all different than the main delivery rooms) can accommodate up to 3 people each. When I was in L&D yesterday I was in a room with one mom being prepped and then wheeled in to her c-section and another mom wheeled in from her c-section and feeding her baby for the first time. I was told that the hospital could actually have delivered all three of us in that room had there been a need. Now the risk of sharing a delivery room is scarier than sharing the PP room!!
  
  I also heard that Jan - March is a slower time for births...

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• chelc32188 member

  January 2015

  FrecklesInside said:

  Also, I was super emotional and crying a lot, and that is personal. And I had trouble with E crying a ton the first two nights, why should another mom deal with that, and why should I deal with her crying infant? No one would get any sleep, ever. And her visitors in and out past all my personal shit? Fuck that. The idea of a shared room post-partum actually makes me angry....

  ALL OF THIS. 

  
  

  I'm super on the fence. The actual L&D rooms are LARGE and STATE of the art and GORGEOUS - and check really everything off my list that I was interested in. When i read online that they had shared rooms I assumed they were RARELY used, and maybe they are - but it hit home when they said they were FULL last week. They did say it is ALMOST ALWAYS only for a night, and you get moved to the first private room in the order you ended up in postpartum, and you stayed in a private room if you got one (so no moving over to a semi private after you are already over there) - so that made me feel a little bit better. 

  
  

  I also totally don't want to come off as a snob or high maintenance - but was a bit SHOCKED by this.

  
  

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• sweetmama17 member

  January 2015

  The hospital I deliver at only has private rooms and after having a baby I couldn't imagine anything else. I used to do newborn screens at a hospital that only had shared rooms and about half the moms didn't speak english. I thought it was hard to do my job let alone I felt bad for so many of those moms...

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• bdazzld member

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  mangomimosa said:

  My concerns aside - I think it's really, really poopy (<--- new TOU) to exclude a new father from the care of his partner & newborn. My H would FLIP OUT. This isn't 1960! Deal breaker for sure.

  This is my biggest concern.  My DH is really sad at the possibility and since I'm a c-section it's likely I'll be inpatient a little longer than if I were delivering vaginally Also, it's room in only with the baby--which in a private room is fantastic...
  

  
  
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• Ldilloughery member

  January 2015

  I loved my Swiss experience too, with the exception of not having my H with me. The food was fantastic and it was SO quiet. I delivered in Sorengo, which is in Lugano. I think my hospital delivered only 80 babies a year. Soo nice. Except for the language barrier (my fault) and no hubby, I wish I were there! Ecuador was an amazing birth experience as well, which I was a little surprised with. Cool to hear other mama's experiences abroad. My friends all though we were crazy!

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• 2Swanns member

  January 2015

  At the birth place where I'm delivering, they only have private rooms which you check into, deliver in, recover in and stay in for your entire time there. The SO's are welcome to stay.

  
  

  With that said, since it sounds like you don't have much of a choice, just try to keep in mind that your roommate will likely be going through everything you are going through. You can maybe commiserate and support each other, hey, ou could make a friend out of it! My MIL's best friend is the woman she met in the hospital when she had her daughter and their kids grew up as best friends as well.

  
  

  Stay positive and good luck!

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• JCWhitey member

  January 2015

  FrecklesInside said:

  I don't want to come off like a terrible snob but I can't imagine trying to recover and establish anything not in a private room. Especially since directly post partum can be a bit of a horrorshow

  This. I seriously cannot imagine. I was half naked...or wholly naked like all the time. My boobs were always out, I was limping half naked to the bathroom, bleeding a shit ton... This is why I don't get people who have live in visitors after birth. But damn, fuck staying with a stranger the first day or two, I seriously could not. Also, healing from my c-section, K always got up and handed me the baby in the MOTN. And I couldn't have done my first nights of parenting without him...

  That was me.  I loved being naked after he was born.  I did have visitors, they just came in with the warning "I'm naked, if that makes you uncomfortable thanks for coming!"  Most stayed.  They were close friends that either had kids and understood or closer friends who had already seen it.  Funny how quickly modesty just flies out the door when you're in that situation!

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