Sibley Memorial Hospital rolls out "Baby Chime"- thoughts?
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Anonymous
| That's horrible. There are also mothers who deliver stillborn babies there. What a terrible, terrible idea. |
Anonymous
| Wow. It would be one thing to have a running number counter somewhere that could tell you how many births happened but a bell is hard to avoid. |
Anonymous
| Someone should email the hospital admins this thread. Sometimes people do stupid things with little oversight and need an outsider to reality check them. |
Anonymous
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I disagree. I like the chime. I like knowing that a new life has been born. Maybe even to someone who struggled through infertility.
If they rang a bell for finishing cancer treatment, and you had cancer, would you begrudge them that? I think you are allowing infertility to color too much of your world. Let people have their baby chime. |
Anonymous
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I understand your perspective and agree,OP. I had some very dark days during my If treatments and I know some days this would've set me over the edge.
For perspective on where this might work well, my brother was stationed in Germany at one of the military hospitals that received those wounded during the wars. They had baby chimes and he said people really enjoyed it because it provided a joyful moment when dealing with many very sad war related injuries that they saw every day. I'm sorry this happened to you today. I hope the hospital is made aware of how this is affecting some of their patients. There is a time and place for everything, and this just isn't it. |
Anonymous
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Then they should have a separate waiting room for patients undergoing a D&C or fertility treatments.
As someone who volunteered with patients with terminal cancer, I think it would be painful to hear a chime for those for whom treatment was successful. |
Anonymous
| IF us a chronic medical condition without a promised outcome or cure. Ringing a bell to alert you to some else's joy, luck, or even cure (if it was an IF mother) is so unacceptable for every other chronic condition. So why do this to IF men and women? I would complain to Sibley right away. |
Anonymous
| I have a friend who works in a hospital that does this and it was very painful for her while she was going through her fertility treatments and then miscarriage. |
Anonymous
Actually there is! I know of a few oncology units in hospitals that have a gong that the person hits after a certain milestone - last chemo, cancer free etc. ... and the the staff and any other fellow patients who have gathered cheer. |
Anonymous
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^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBnZzfgOHUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdX8Tlge0oA |
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Anonymous
| Are you fucking kidding me? |
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Anonymous
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Yeah, Sibley's not exactly the most sensitive. I will always remember the hazy moment I came out of anesthetic after getting a D&C for a m/c, and seeing the giant pregnant belly on the nurse who was tending to me. And hearing all about the pregnancy. I mean, I know nurses have jobs and nurses have babies, but THAT nurse, at THAT moment, with THAT conversation?
If Sibley wants to be so public about all the goings-on with its patients, how about a big game-show-style, WAH-WAHHH, whenever they screw up? |
Anonymous
What the hell! That's messed up. If I were that nurse I would have asked to switch patients. WOW. |