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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congrats! Great insight I received for a mom of three and health practitioner in the DC area is that you really can’t go wrong. We have incredible, high quality care available across all the options. One outstanding difference that most will say doesn’t mean much unless you spend extensive time in the hospital is the post delivery at Sibley are new and top notch compared to GWs old, unimpressive. Not sure about others. NICU at GW and Georgetown are top notch but Georgetown is a teaching hospital so you’d need to be comfortable with that. There are other variances but really, you can’t go wrong (or on the flip side, you could potentially have a negative experience anywhere) so take comfort in that.[/quote]

GW is also a teaching hospital. Georgetown NICU is level 4, whereas GW is level 3. However, unless your baby has a known heart condition or something where they’d potentially need ECMO right away, I wouldn’t make a decision based on that. If your child had meconium aspiration or something and ended up needing to be intubated/ventilated, GW can handle that, but Sibley’s NICU, which is a level 2, cannot.[/quote]

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