Hospitals no longer allowing partners or support people
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Anonymous
| And what happens when some of those L&D and postpartum staff start coming down with covid-19 (because you know they will), there's staffing shortages, and no support person available to advocate and help the patient? |
Anonymous
Yes, I feel like L&D nurses and postpartum staff are more likely to have COVID-19, than the support person you've probably been social distancing with for the past 1-3 months. Banning a spouse "for safety" makes no sense. Is it to protect the spouse from getting exposed to the virus? |
Anonymous
| Who is going to walk you to the bathroom when your legs feel like jello or bring you water? Or hand the baby to you when you physically can't move? Nurses weren't helpful before with helping tasks and there weren't enough of them. |
Anonymous
| In Ontario, Canada they are allowing ONE person in with you for the birth. They have to pack what they need to be there and stay, including their own food. No running home or leaving the maternity ward for anything. Once that one person leaves the maternity ward there will be no re-entry. |
Anonymous
| I just got a news update from my hospital/practice that’s part of the NYP system about it this morning. Due in less than four weeks, and really having a hard time. I was already worried enough about childcare and family visits etc but now the thought of not having my husband there for support and birth is just about too much to deal with on a Monday morning while trying to homeschool and telework ... |
Anonymous
| This list is just straight up fear mongering. It’s one hospital system in NY. It’s nowhere in DC. Stop trying to freak out pregnant women. We have enough on our plates as it is right now. |
Anonymous
It’s one of the largest hospital systems around. In a densely-populated area that may be just a couple weeks ahead of DC on the “curve”. It’s also not just affecting their NYC facilities, but all of the suburban/exurban ones as well. A week ago my OB practice was still on the “one visitor” rule but now look where we are. It’s unfortunately not fear-mongering, it’s reality for some of us. |
Anonymous
Ton of ppl who don't live in DC are on this board and we've only listed NYC hospitals. Learn to READ. No mention of DC |
Anonymous
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Confirmed hospitals with no visitor/support person:
NYP Metropolitan Mt Sinai NYU Greenwich-CT |
Anonymous
None of these are in DC. Getting people anxious about a possibility of this doesn’t serve anyone. It just promotes fear and stress during an already stressful time. When DC hospitals adopt these policies, then come back and post and women can prepare. But whipping up hormonal anxious moms to be over a possibility doesn’t really serve anyone. |
Anonymous
Why don't you just go ef yourself. There are many c sections that are wise and medically recommended but not emergent. My second c section was electively scheduled for 39 weeks because I had an emergency c section due to severe HELLP and preeclampsia during my first pregnancy. My second pregnancy was entirely uneventful and I could have tried for a VBAC. I would likely be cancelled in this environment and who knows, maybe my preeclampsia would have come back, its much higher risk to reemerge after 39 weeks in subsequent pregnancies. So stop sticking your nose in other women's decisions and being a judgmental jerk during an exceptionally trying time. |
Anonymous
Jesus christ wtf is wrong with people in this thread? STOP. |
Anonymous
Stop commenting on this post. People post lots of things that aren't DC related. Clearly doesn't apply to you so nice along. |
Anonymous
Not everyone on this board is from DC. It is a look into the future of most us hospitals during this pandemic |
Anonymous
Literally in the first post, op states this is in NYC. If you don't care keep moving. |