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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, PP here with one more thing I just remembered - the nurses did not encourage me to hold the baby and in fact told me I couldn't. I spoke to one of the providers I delivered with when I met them in the hall and they told me this was BS - that there were very few conditions where you can't hold your baby and that I should be able to hold mine. So I told the nurse that I spoke to one of the providers and they recommended I hold the baby, and tada, I was now able to hold the baby. So every day after that I told the nurse I wanted to hold the baby, and if they pushed back, I asked them to tell me why and magically I was allowed to.

I hope this was just a symptom of healthcare providers being exhausted from covid and just not wanting to do extra work to help you get the baby out of the bed with all the wires and such and that this doesn't happen anymore, but I can't tell you how magical it was to be able to hold him so want you to be prepared to advocate for that. [/quote]

This is also a GW problem. I gave birth there and was lectured and told all sorts of “rules.”  For example I was required to keep a breast feeding log. I was lectured to for not filling it out. I got up without slippers on and was yelled at for that.

Gave birth at a different hospital for second child and was prepared for something similar as GW.

postpartum care there is terrible and I’d only give birth there if I had a postpartum doula by my side at all times.

OP my lesson learned is push back. You’re a customer!  At one point during Covid they told me my husband couldn’t leave the hospital and I told them this isn’t jail and that’s simply not true he must stay here. Then they said they wouldn’t let him back in and I told them he’d call the police for not letting him into the hospital to retrieve his child.

GW is crazy so get ready. [/quote]

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