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- From: clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
- Subject: Re: nipple confusion and feeding newborn glucose-water???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.174338.28832@nynexst.com>
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- Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
- References: <1993Jan25.193105.19919@afit.af.mil> <1993Jan26.135125.29944@nynexst.com> <1k4lmeINNa16@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:43:38 GMT
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- In article <1k4lmeINNa16@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu (Tracy Larrabee) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan26.135125.29944@nynexst.com> clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu) writes:
- >> But how can you? You are not allowed in the nursery. The nurseries
- >> are locked up. You can only look through the window and see them
- >> washing your baby. We did have rooming-in, but they still take
- >> the baby away for washing, paper-clothes changing, and probably
- >> glucose water. During visiting hours, all babies are wisked back
- >> to the nursery for security reasons. And during one of those visiting
- >> hours I saw a nurse give my son a pacifier but couldn't do a thing
- >> about it. He loved it, and still loves his pacifier today!
- >
- >My hospital was quite different. I spent a week *in* the nursery with
- >my son. And the babies that could go out of the nursery did not have
- >to be broght back for washing or paper-clothes changing. There
- >basically were no visiting hours--it was up to the parents to police
- >that.
- >I felt like I was in charge
- >of my child and that my help was vital. I'm really glad they did that
- >for me. I would hate to have been at the hospital that Clare
- >describes.
- >
- Well remember I described my experiences before, and it sounds funny
- nowadays, like how the security guard wouldn't let my husband park
- his car near the door, so I had to walk up there myself (9 cm dilated),
- and how I was clutching the walls and nurses walked by like I wasn't
- there...
-
- Next time, I might as well take the taxi, since it took my husband
- significant time to find parking. There is a street behind the hospital
- that they tell you not to park in since it is dangerous and the cars
- get ripped off or broken into quite often there. I think my husband
- ended up parking at the hospital he works in (a few blocks away), and
- walking back.
-
- Meanwhile in California, one of my e-friends is writing me about jacuzzis in
- the "Sonoma Suites"... Here in the Bronx, I'll be lucky if I have a
- private room for labor and delivery! Sometimes women have the babies
- in the hallway. Luckily my son was born Feb 10, and supposedly it is a slow
- month. Also my daughter(?) is due late March, which is also supposed
- to be a slow month. I'm glad I'm not due June or July or Sept!
-
- I'll let y'all know if I have to deliver in the hallway...
-
- [By the way, did any of you laugh in between contractions at the
- howling and screaming you heard from the other rooms, only to howl
- and scream yourself the next minute, then giggle and laugh again?
- Or am I weird?, probably...]
-
- The funny(?) thing was that my poor mother-in-law thought she could
- come only on visiting hours, and the minute she got here and was just
- about to hold my son for the first time, a nurse came in and took
- the baby away from her and threw him in the nursery where he started
- crying and then gave him a pacifier. My m-i-l could only stand
- there and watch longingly... After visiting hours, a security guard
- came around and checked to make sure no visitors were hiding in the
- closets or bathrooms before they could lock up the maternity ward
- and let the babies back out. It is done for security reasons, as
- the hospital is in the middle of the Bronx. In fact recently a lady
- dressed up as a nurse and went into a hospital in NYC, walked into
- a room, took the baby from the mother, and walked out the door.
- She was only caught later when she tried to obtain a birth certificate
- for the baby...
-
- Some of the birthing rooms y'all write about sound like fancy hotel
- suites, with jacuzzis, private bathrooms, nice sofas, and special beds.
- We just get the old stirrup bed and the only decorations are the
- Combat roach traps sitting in the corners on the linoleum floor!
- [I recommend Raid MAX roach traps... they work better than Combat.]
- Oh yeah... we do get a TV mounted on the ceiling, but you have to
- pay money to "activate" it. Otherwise it just displays hospital
- rules and regulations and the time. This is a private hospital too.
-
- Maybe I'll have to get accidentally pregnant once we move to California
- to experience the fancy amenities like the Sonoma Suites. I wonder
- if they have a wine rack and indoor barbeque! :-)
-