Birthing suites in DMV with best luxury amenities

[Anonymous]

Reston Hospital offers postpartum massages ‐ not sure of the cost. Maybe they find this helps speed up healing and reduce postpartum depression. It's not a crime if a mom requests this at that hospital because the hospital chose to offer it. I'm sure it's not the nurses that are required to do the massage but a masseuse that the hospital entered into an agreement with.

Meals for new mothers are delivered by the cafeteria staff, not nurses, regardless of if the meal is standard hospital food or a memorable post delivery meal. It's not a burden on nurses or doctors, it's a service the hospital provides to ensure the new mother gets adequate nutrition during their stay so they can recover.

Some hospitals contract with HALO sleep sack providers to encourage new mothers to practice "back is best" habits and lay a baby on their back to sleep as it helps improve neonatal health outcomes - just in the way that pampers and huggies contract with hospitals to provide newborn diapers for newborn patients so mothers don't have to travel to the hospital with packed diapers for their baby.

There are some hospitals in the area that used to have shared post delivery rooms which is not the most comfortable setting to recover from birth - so to ask for a private room is simply just checking the current pulse of what hospitals are choosing to offer now.

It's not a crime for a new mother to look for information with such to compare hospitals in regards to comfortable settings to give birth - just like people compare neighborhoods before choosing where to buy a home or compare daycare providers before enrolling their child or compare employers before deciding to apply for a new job or compare schools before applying to college. People even compare malls before they go shopping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my home country, middle and upper middle class folks buy a birth package at a private hospital. Most opt for scheduled C-sections and show up with full hair and makeup for photos. Total opposite of DCUM’s preferences. It’s a competitive market. I wish hospitals would do more to compete for our business actually.

Huh. I've never been allowed to wear makeup when I've had surgery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I have solved your problem! On the c-section thread, one of the very few normal-sounding posters said that private hospitals in Brazil are the HEIGHT of luxury. You NEED to deliver in Brazil. Go now!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/c-sections-are-all-the-rage-in-brazil-so-too-now-are-fancy-parties-to-watch-them/2019/06/11/8d2533ac-7bfc-11e9-b1f3-b233fe5811ef_story.html

SAO PAULO, Brazil — The white-gloved women laid chocolates and cakes on silver trays. They filled the crystal vases with roses. Now the guests were arriving. Mariana Casmalla had been buffed, primped and polished in preparation for this moment.

She was ready for her C-section.

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At the Sao Luiz private hospital in Sao Paulo, a mother-to-be can get her hair and makeup done in her hospital room. For 2,000 reais per day — about $500 — her family can rent out the presidential suite, with a living room and bathroom for guests, a balcony and minibar. Mothers can request their favorite flowers and magazines, and even change the furniture if it clashes with their planned decorations. A 22-story maternity ward now under construction will include a wine cellar and ballroom.

[Anonymous]

Even fish are concerned about where they give birth:

https://youtu.be/ChGgp54QPL0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my home country, middle and upper middle class folks buy a birth package at a private hospital. Most opt for scheduled C-sections and show up with full hair and makeup for photos. Total opposite of DCUM’s preferences. It’s a competitive market. I wish hospitals would do more to compete for our business actually.

South America.

No, but not a bad guess. Turkey.

[Anonymous]

Piedmont in Atlanta has something like this! Waters Pavilion for inpatient surgery, including birth:

https://www.piedmont.org/locations/piedmont-atlanta/waters-pavilion