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[quote=Anonymous]I gave birth at Sibley 3 years ago. I wouldn't go back. I had a very quick (6 hour) birth from time my water broke, but no one would believe my baby was coming fast and they had no delivery rooms available so the had me sit around and labor in the waiting room. When a delivery room was available they said "we will check on you in a few hours". When I started hemorrhaging during birth my husband left to get help (leaving me alone) and the nurses at the station apparently said "according to our monitors she and the baby are fine." He begged them to come check me, at which point the nurse came in and they could see the head. She showed my husband how to help me push and left to get the doctor (so, we were again alone). I had asked for an epidural, but their labeling system was down that day and they'd left me in the waiting room for a few hours, so they were unable to label my blood and it was too late to find someone to walk it to the lab so no epidural. Except they wrote in my chart that I had an epidural. The doctor after delivering said "I'll give you something for your back pain" and I said "I don't have back pain" and she said "you will when your epidural wears off". She was IRATE with the nurses because appently she was about to start stitches. Ouch. She couldn't get the bleeding to stop and asked the nurses for a series of tools (as well as another doctor to assist) and they kept saying things like "that's not in the maternity ward". I did stop bleeding, but they decided to monitor my blood count every hour of my hospital stay to make sure I didn't need a transfusion. While not ideal to get woken up on the hour, to make it worse they didn't time this with things like my meds, or my baby coming in to nurse, so I never got more than about 25 mins of sleep for 2 nights after giving birth. My parents arrived when DD was 24 hours old and were upset that (a) my dad's credit card information was (probably) stollen in the cafeteria (fraudulent charges started appearing shortly after he used it) and (b) when they brought my DD to my mom the blanket DD was in had a loose string that was wrapped around her neck. My mom pointed this out to the nurse who said basically "huh". I had a really hard time in the weeks after my daughter's birth and I think a lot of that was Sibley-related anxiety. I LOVED my Sibley-affiliated doctor, but don't think I could deliver my next one there. [/quote]
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