Sibley or GW not sure where to deliver?

[Anonymous]

I am currently seeking Obgyn care at GW and MFM at Sibley. No preference for birth, want to bring a healthy living child home.

Both hospitals are easy to get to. I am not sure how to decide where to give birth.

I would appreciate your recommendations.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am currently seeking Obgyn care at GW and MFM at Sibley. No preference for birth, want to bring a healthy living child home.

Both hospitals are easy to get to. I am not sure how to decide where to give birth.

I would appreciate your recommendations.

Thanks.

Assuming you're high risk given you're seeing an MFM, I would choose gwu. Higher level nicu in case you end up needing it, and if you don't, still an excellent experience

[Anonymous]

If your child will need any testing done immediately after birth like mine did, you should contact children’s hospital (not deliver there, just have a plan in place). They have better labs for test and can get things turned around significantly faster than Sibley (don’t know about GW). It was a bizarre cluster f*** to get my son’s blood couriered to Children’s for testing.

[Anonymous]

I delivered at both. Much preferred Sibley. At GW, it was like a whole medical class came to watch the delivery.

[Anonymous]

Are you seeing an MFM due to age?

[Anonymous]

Having delivered at both hospitals, I far recommend GW. I had a high risk pregnancy and it was handled well at Sibley and my delivery and postpartum experience were excellent. At GW delivery was a disaster and so was postpartum. The patient care at Sibley was superb, the rooms were quiet, the Staff treated me well, and I left feeling cared for and well supported. In contrast, I was discHarged from GW with multiple medical issues that were not resolved, and feeling like I had been treated by those Emory nurses who just got fired over their Tik Tok ick video.

[Anonymous]

Sorry I mean i Far recommend sibley and do not recommend GW to anyone!

[Anonymous]

GW. I was 33 and having my third kid when he suddenly needed the NICU even though we had no suggestion of that prior to birth. If I had been at Sibley, we would have been separated to save his life.

Always deliver where there is a NICU down the hall.

[Anonymous]

People always come on here and claim you’ll be separated from your baby at sibley, etc. I delivered high risk (expected) at 31 weeks and Georgetown and then had a healthy full term delivery at sibley and then an unexpected early, not healthy delivery at sibley. The sibley deliveries were wonderful and the head neonatologist at sibley was the exact head neonatologist at Georgetown. The difference was at Georgetown my baby was in a crowded nicu and actually caught an infection from another baby (the nurses are in charge of 3). It was documented and quite a mess. At sibley my baby was the only one in the special care nursery. The neonatologists joked and all laughed about how it was the hidden gem and how the babies get undivided attention there. Unless you have a known issue and good reason to believe you’ll deliver incredibly early, I’d go to sibley.

[Anonymous]

I had a 6.5 week early baby delivered at Sibley and he stayed in the Special Care Nursery (which is a NICU) for 12 days. No one was separated and sent to a different hospital. I had an excellent experience and highly recommend Sibley. The NICU doctors and nurses are the same as Georgetown. It is just quieter and much less chaotic at Sibley. If you go to a teaching hospital, be prepared for a lot of onlookers and confusion as to who is actually caring for you.

[Anonymous]

If you decide to deliver at Sibley then you'll have to switch OBs to a practice that delivers at Sibley, unless you are already seeing Dr. DeSouza, who can deliver at both but usually goes to Sibley. The Sibley MFMs don't deliver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am currently seeking Obgyn care at GW and MFM at Sibley. No preference for birth, want to bring a healthy living child home.

Both hospitals are easy to get to. I am not sure how to decide where to give birth.

I would appreciate your recommendations.

Thanks.

Assuming you're high risk given you're seeing an MFM, I would choose gwu. Higher level nicu in case you end up needing it, and if you don't, still an excellent experience

Thanks, yes high risk due to late term fetal loss. Thinking keeping both care options open when I make it to 37 weeks I can stick to sibley before that open to GW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your child will need any testing done immediately after birth like mine did, you should contact children’s hospital (not deliver there, just have a plan in place). They have better labs for test and can get things turned around significantly faster than Sibley (don’t know about GW). It was a bizarre cluster f*** to get my son’s blood couriered to Children’s for testing.

Thanks, contact after birth or proactive now to under the process?

Hope everything is okay with your baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I delivered at both. Much preferred Sibley. At GW, it was like a whole medical class came to watch the delivery.

Dod you get to spend time with your baby at Sibley? How was the lactation consultant?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you seeing an MFM due to age?

Not really, first loss at 32 at 28 weeks.