How are VIP births/ Prenatal care different (even people like Naomi Biden)?

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe this is a thing. When did this start?

[Anonymous]

Anyone with means can go to the Lindo wing, where the British royal women have their babies. I have a very wealthy relative and his wife had her OB make house calls during her pregnancy, with the fancy ultrasound machine in tow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone with means can go to the Lindo wing, where the British royal women have their babies. I have a very wealthy relative and his wife had her OB make house calls during her pregnancy, with the fancy ultrasound machine in tow.

Very helpful for women in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't Beyoncé famously pay over $1M to keep the maternity ward all to herself?

At least one father with a child already there was denied entry. The hospital had to cough up a large portion of that payment in settlements with the other families whose visitors were denied entry

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn't Beyoncé famously pay over $1M to keep the maternity ward all to herself?

At least one father with a child already there was denied entry. The hospital had to cough up a large portion of that payment in settlements with the other families whose visitors were denied entry

As they should. Any celebrity who would attempt to do this should be cancelled for eternity. Scum.

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Anonymous wrote:INOVA Fairfax lists their VIP options online: https://www.inova.org/our-services/inova-womens-services/childbirth-services/inova-womens-hospital-luxury-gifts

wow sparkling water!

Lol I bled all over my sheets and sweated through them...all I cared about the sheets was that they were replaced! I can't indict caring about any of this stuff postpartum.

[Anonymous]

Looks like the DC hospitals didn’t cut it for Naomi and she went to LA to deliver. She did have a scheduled C section so sounds like this was the plan all along.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:INOVA Fairfax lists their VIP options online: https://www.inova.org/our-services/inova-womens-services/childbirth-services/inova-womens-hospital-luxury-gifts

wow sparkling water!

The rooms are the main draw

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the DC hospitals didn’t cut it for Naomi and she went to LA to deliver. She did have a scheduled C section so sounds like this was the plan all along.

I don't even know who Naomi Biden is! Did she fly super pregnant? Or stay in LA for a few weeks? What a nice life.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the DC hospitals didn’t cut it for Naomi and she went to LA to deliver. She did have a scheduled C section so sounds like this was the plan all along.

I don't even know who Naomi Biden is! Did she fly super pregnant? Or stay in LA for a few weeks? What a nice life.

I think she moved to LA for her husband’s job so it makes sense for her to give birth where she lives…..

[Anonymous]

You can pay to have your OB travel somewhere with you to give birth, with all the equipment, like Angelina Jolie did when she had her twins.

[Anonymous]

I had an external version at Georgetown and shared a preop room with a Wizard player and his wife. It was Sept so the entire place was packed with the "holiday babies." She was in there for some complications. The nurses asked before hand if we were going to be ok with it since they were gong to have a lot of people in and out but had no rooms to put them alone. It ended up being the entire day. They were lovely. It has been years and they still send us a birthday card for our child who I ended up delivering rather than flipping.

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Anonymous wrote:I had an external version at Georgetown and shared a preop room with a Wizard player and his wife. It was Sept so the entire place was packed with the "holiday babies." She was in there for some complications. The nurses asked before hand if we were going to be ok with it since they were gong to have a lot of people in and out but had no rooms to put them alone. It ended up being the entire day. They were lovely. It has been years and they still send us a birthday card for our child who I ended up delivering rather than flipping.

That’s so nice. A birthday card for someone you met once, I wonder how she manages that.

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Anonymous wrote:For example, Naomi Biden is currently pregnant, what type of not advertised benefits do VIPs in this area get (which I acknowledge isn’t a legit celebrity/ VIP but still made me wonder).

Are there any secret ways to make a normal persons birth better that we just are unaware we could be paying for? Like nicer hospital rooms etc?

GW has a “VIP” nicer postpartum room that has a mini fridge and a lot more space. Anyone can get it if it’s available, it’s first come first serve and an additional out of pocket charge, I think a few hundred per night.

[Anonymous]

I gave birth in a hospital room that was built for the president of the hospital when she was pregnant.

It was a single occupant room, large with the couch and a TV.

It was better than the other rooms, but not amazing.

If you want to know what super fancy people can do for birthing, browse for private midwife clinics.