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

[Anonymous]

That alone would keep me from going to Sibley for any purpose. Violation of privacy to the new mother, grossly insensitive to those who've lost babies, just plain rude to other patients. Does everything in this world have to be public?

[Anonymous]

So has anyone complained to Sibley about the chimes?

[Anonymous]

I delivered a stillborn baby at Sibley as well.

I generally found them to be not particular sensitive to the situation. I understand that there was nowhere to put me except the L&D rooms with women delivering live babies but they did many insensitive things such as leaving the monitor on in my room so that we could see the woman in the next room's contractions and fetal heartbeat, putting me in a room where you could hear the woman next to me in labor, the nurse handing me the forms to fill out for a birth certificate, autopsy, and disposition of remains without a word of explanation while I was in labor, no postpartum advice, and not a single visit by or offer of a social worker, counselor, or other support type person.

As traumatic as that was, if I had spent my stay there listening to that chime over and over again, it would have completely put me over the edge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I delivered a stillborn baby at Sibley as well.

I generally found them to be not particular sensitive to the situation. I understand that there was nowhere to put me except the L&D rooms with women delivering live babies but they did many insensitive things such as leaving the monitor on in my room so that we could see the woman in the next room's contractions and fetal heartbeat, putting me in a room where you could hear the woman next to me in labor, the nurse handing me the forms to fill out for a birth certificate, autopsy, and disposition of remains without a word of explanation while I was in labor, no postpartum advice, and not a single visit by or offer of a social worker, counselor, or other support type person.

As traumatic as that was, if I had spent my stay there listening to that chime over and over again, it would have completely put me over the edge.

Oh. My. God. That is fricken unbelievable by Sibley

Who do we call/write to to complain?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I delivered a stillborn baby at Sibley as well.

I generally found them to be not particular sensitive to the situation. I understand that there was nowhere to put me except the L&D rooms with women delivering live babies but they did many insensitive things such as leaving the monitor on in my room so that we could see the woman in the next room's contractions and fetal heartbeat, putting me in a room where you could hear the woman next to me in labor, the nurse handing me the forms to fill out for a birth certificate, autopsy, and disposition of remains without a word of explanation while I was in labor, no postpartum advice, and not a single visit by or offer of a social worker, counselor, or other support type person.

As traumatic as that was, if I had spent my stay there listening to that chime over and over again, it would have completely put me over the edge.

I am SO sorry. Awful isn't even the word.

[Anonymous]

I see no UPside to the chime, and so much potential downside.

And damn, if I worked there I think I'd lose my mind. Same if I was a patient trying to get precious rest.

I've heard of other hospitals doing this but I don't see any solid reason--from a pros/cons perspective, I see only cons.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know if Sibley still has the baby chimes?

[Anonymous]

Sibley still has the baby chime (or at least they did when I delivered my stillborn girl in June). I had a bunch of bad experiences there during the delivery and I wrote to the patient advocate to complain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sibley still has the baby chime (or at least they did when I delivered my stillborn girl in June). I had a bunch of bad experiences there during the delivery and I wrote to the patient advocate to complain.

I'm so sorry this happened to you.

[Anonymous]

my dh had shoulder surgery in december, i heard the chimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sibley still has the baby chime (or at least they did when I delivered my stillborn girl in June). I had a bunch of bad experiences there during the delivery and I wrote to the patient advocate to complain.

I'm so sorry this happened to you.

+1. The very thought of stillbirth is too much for me, so you must be incredibly strong. Did the patient advocate provide any useful feedback?

[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.

Yes, I would begrudge that. Do we really need more noise in a hospital? Pleeeeeeease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my dh had shoulder surgery in december, i heard the chimes.

So they're on all the floors of the hospital? Can the patients hear them from their rooms if they're staying overnight?

[Anonymous]

You can hear them anytime. Frankly, when I'm in labor knowing I'm delivering a DEAD baby, I don't need to hear the F***ing chimes. I'm the PP who complained to the patient advocate, she apologized about the insensitive comments the staff made to me and my DH and said that she would work to train them better. I hope that's happened. The medical care we received while we were there was otherwise fine.

[Anonymous]

You definitely cannot hear the chimes everywhere in the hospital. My father was in Sibley for 3 weeks and I never heard it once at the ICU or the med-surg wards evem though I was there daily.