Sibley Memorial Hospital rolls out "Baby Chime"- thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1. And there should not be a cancer gong. Can you IMAGINE sitting in a fertility clinic and hearing a gong go off every time there was a success?

[Anonymous]

My husband works at a hospital that had a chime for a year. It was considered cute at first, but rapidly became really annoying to the staff. Everyone started complaining. They stopped the chime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1. And there should not be a cancer gong. Can you IMAGINE sitting in a fertility clinic and hearing a gong go off every time there was a success?

I disagree. It brings me hope.

[Anonymous]

Ugh--that's just one more thing to wake up all the patients who need sleep, let alone being an emotional trigger for folks there for infertility treatment.

It just sounds like bad medicine.

[Anonymous]

You know what is the equivalent of a cancer patient hitting a gong as she leaves the hospital for the last time? A mother leaving the hospital with a newborn on her lap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

What the hell! That's messed up. If I were that nurse I would have asked to switch patients. WOW.

That happened to me too, probably with the same nurse (was it winter of 2010?) I noticed it but it didn't bother me that much. Life does go on for others, and I realize that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know what is the equivalent of a cancer patient hitting a gong as she leaves the hospital for the last time? A mother leaving the hospital with a newborn on her lap.

um, not really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

i gave birth twice (not at sibley) and this sounds extremely annoying. i can only imagine how annoying must be listening to the chimes after recovering from 24 hours of labor. new lives are being born all the time, we all know that, who needs constant updates that it happened at a particular hospital.

[Anonymous]

Only acceptable if you intend to have a soundproofed separate wing for stillbirths and miscarriages. Just... don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know what is the equivalent of a cancer patient hitting a gong as she leaves the hospital for the last time? A mother leaving the hospital with a newborn on her lap.

um, not really.

Why not? As you leave with the baby the nurses say goodbye and you hear congrates on the way down the elevator. When I was doing the tour before my delivery, a new mother was being wheeled out the lobby and we all said "aww".

I have to counter, how is an automated chime when you're in the delivery room similar to the cancer patient ringing the gong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like that's something that was created with only the best intentions, but .... I don't know. I have mixed feelings about it. I'm thinking also of those mothers that perhaps deliver, but their babies go into the NICU and pass, etc.

God, this is where my thoughts went, too. Can you imagine the devastation? No, no, no. Best of intentions but the downside seems so awful it's not worth it.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, they really did not think this through.
Glad it is not my neighborhood hospital anymore.

[Anonymous]

I delivered a stillborn baby at Sibley and hearing that chime while I waited in the lobby for my husband to get the car and pull it up front would have started a fresh round of crying. However, it would have just been one round of many (just going to Target during that timeframe would make me cry).

Does it chime everywhere in the hospital? If so, then it is completely inappropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I delivered a stillborn baby at Sibley and hearing that chime while I waited in the lobby for my husband to get the car and pull it up front would have started a fresh round of crying. However, it would have just been one round of many (just going to Target during that timeframe would make me cry).

Does it chime everywhere in the hospital? If so, then it is completely inappropriate.

Oh my gosh, I am so sorry for your loss. You're very brave. Yes, the chime sounds off hospital wide, including hallways and lobby areas. Its terribly insensitive.

[Anonymous]

Is this chime new?