Having to share maternity/recovery room in hospital?
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Anonymous
+1. This. I was in a shared room at a NYC hospital, but no one else was there, with my first. I had my second and third in the Greenwich, CT hospital and all rooms are single. I moved to Greenwich before I got pregnant with my second. |
Anonymous
| Not around here , no. Never heard of a woman having to share. I’ve delivered in DC and Virginia, all private rooms. |
Anonymous
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I didnt for our tow children.
Howard County General Hospital |
Anonymous
| Two ^ |
Anonymous
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I've only heard of this in NYC in the US, and other places in Europe. The hospital I gave birth to my daughter at, in Chicago, used to have shared rooms but had phased them out by the time I gave birth a little under a decade ago, and I've never heard of any other moms in this city sharing rooms.
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Anonymous
| No. Pay for a private room. This is for poor people. |
Anonymous
| So many rich women on this forum. |
Anonymous
Are there any local hospitals that have shared rooms in 2025? None of the dc ones I know ( gw, medstar, georgetown, sibley) do |
Anonymous
They do for the illegal alien moms. |
Anonymous
Agreed. I already had so little sleep after a multi day labor. I can't imagine the hell if someone else's baby was keeping me up too. |
Anonymous
What are you talking about |
Anonymous
| Sibley was shared in 2015. I paid for the private room. |
Anonymous
Illegal alien women in labor cannot, by law, be turned away from a hospital. However, illegal aliens do not have insurance, don’t qualify for Medicare, and they do not have the $40,000 to pay the hospital back for the delivery costs. Essentially: society provides these women free medical care. It’s only fair to make them at least share a room, since the hospital has to eat all the other delivery costs. |
Anonymous
Yet this doesn't happen locally and most people on Medicare are 65+, not making babies... |
Anonymous
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This sounds really weird and miserable. You are already getting very little sleep what with baby cluster feeding/crying and the nurses coming in to do medical checks for you and baby. Having a second person’s baby crying and being woken for their checks too would basically ensure no sleep.
My hospital in downtown Baltimore had private rooms |