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Baby first hospital

katiebug66katiebug66 member
in May 2015 Moms
My hospital was recently designated as baby first - the second one in the state. At first, I was excited since I am a c-section momma and they will let the baby in recovery with you. I will also be trying to BF after a reduction so I will need the odds in my favor. However, I've heard from two friends that just had babies since the new designation and it is totally different from my first two births. Almost complete rooming in - and I was not afraid to send baby to nursery. No pacis, no swaddling, no pain regimens - you have to ask for pain meds, they don't just bring it. Now I am nervous! 

Any one else have a  baby first hospital? 

I am just thankful this is my third and I know what I want. If I was a first time mom, this would be so overwheleming. 


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  • julieamersonjulieamerson member
    I'm a FTM and prefer a baby first hospital. It's one reason I chose the hospital I did!
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  • Kae42Kae42 member
    I work at a hospital that is "baby friendly" (Maybe that's Canada's version of baby first?) and most parents love it! We just don't provide pacifiers but if parents bring their own we don't stop them. All we do is educate regarding the use of pacifiers, and why swaddling is no longer recommended, but if people choose to do either, that's totally their choice! And we will support whatever parents decide to do.
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  • saric83saric83 member
    Ours is a BF hospital too, and like PP mentioned they said they would allow pacifiers and swaddling if we brought them in.  But they strongly cautioned against pacifiers for the first few weeks if BFing.  And there also is no nursery to send the little fella to, but I'm okay with that since I want to get used to what it will be like at home anyway. ;)
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  • bscurtbscurt member
    I'm birthing at a baby friendly hospital as well. I've heard good things about this and the rooming in with baby. I didn't know swaddling wasn't recommended anymore though?
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  • molls332233molls332233 member
    breemarie808 said:

    I'm birthing at a baby friendly hospital as well. I've heard good things about this and the rooming in with baby. I didn't know swaddling wasn't recommended anymore though?


    I also have not heard that swaddling isn't recommended anymore (I bought/received a bunch of swaddlers!)..... interested in clarification on this!
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  • katiebug66katiebug66 member
    I am okay with the idea of it but also know how scary it is to make some of the choices. To feel like I was doing it "wrong" would have stressed me out more. 


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  • Sam2552Sam2552 member
    This will be the same for me. The baby will 'room in' with me the entire time. They said they will take the baby for a couple hours if you are having a really rough time and need to rest just for a bit. It's supposed to be a lot better for bonding time, recovery, and like another poster said it will teach us what it will be like from now on. :) I really want to breastfeed too and they said at the hospital they had a huge increase of success rate when rooming together. It gives me hope, as I have never done this before and my friends were unsuccessful. I haven't heard about the no swaddling though where I am at.
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  • mnbandomnbando member
    I googled about swaddling and found this

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  • MamatolilbeeMamatolilbee member
    We have a baby first hospital and love it. We have to room in and they strongly encourage bfing, which we are good with. We don't use a pacifier the first month anyways until my supply is stable and because they encourage bfing there is an awesome lactation consultant that came to help us as much as we needed.

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  • kristaelaine86kristaelaine86 member
    Here in Canada I believe baby always rooms in with you( or maybe just my hospital who knows, just have never heard otherwise), unless medically not able and requires a stay in the NICU. I prefer this! My first spent the first few days in th NICU , but with my second ( which was a c section delivery) she stayed right in the room with us. My husband stays with me and basically looks after the baby and I just rest and breastfeed. Paci's are at your own discretion and the hospital doesn't provide them. Although they do swaddle and support swaddling... Or at least they did in 2011 when I had my DD.
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  • saric83saric83 member
    edited April 2015
    I should clarify - our BF hospital is definitely NOT against swaddling at all.  But they encourage skin-to-skin as much as possible, so they don't automatically wrap the baby up.  If he's away from you though (and you have no objections), they do the baby burrito and will show you how to do it.  We have velcro swaddles instead of the blankets, so they just told us to bring them if we would rather use those.  
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  • DMELDMEL member
    Come on now.... "Baby first" hospital??? As opposed to baby last? LOL some of these terms just make me laugh.

    I'm delivering at a normal hospital and they encourage rooming in and skin to skin as well. But they allow you to utilize the nursery if you need to. Basically you do what you and baby needs/prefers.
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  • scubakatescubakate member
    First, It's Baby Friendly, not Baby First.  https://www.babyfriendlyusa.org/faqs  read up on it, it's a very good certification to have.  Why would you want to send your baby off to a nursery?  At my baby friendly hospital if you need to shower and no one else is in the room at the time, the nurse or cna will sit with the baby in your room.  It improves BF success, decreases PPD, and promotes bonding time in the most crucial time period.
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  • DMELDMEL member
    edited April 2015
    @scubakate I was laughing at the term baby first so calm down. I have a medical degree so I'm well versed in benefits of breastfeeding and risks of ppd and the importance of bonding. The fact remains that some women need to utilize a nursery for a number of reasons. And hospitals without this new designation often send nurses to stay with baby during moms shower. Like mine does.
    Oh and my hospital that's just plain regular and happens to be Lennox hill.... doesn't employ CNAs, just good old fashioned RNs which Is a plus for me
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  • scubakatescubakate member
    @DMEL, wasn't directing my comment to you but to the post in general, and I am perfectly calm.  I'm a RN too :D.  I'm curious about a hospital that doesn't have CNA's, what are your patient ratio's like?
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  • TBsquaredTBsquared member
    As others from Canada have said, this is totally the norm, we don't have nursery's anymore and haven't for some time!

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