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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Choose whichever ped you want.

If yours has privileges where you deliver, your ped will see the baby at the hospital and then I think you go in again about 4 or 5 days after discharge.

If yours does not have privileges where you deliver, your baby will be seen by a hospital pediatrician and then within a day or two of discharge.

I had 3 kids at a hospital near work, so our ped did not have privileges there.  It really wasn't a terrible inconvenience to go to the office after discharge.[/quote]

+1. A PP mentioned jaundice - one of my 3 was jaundiced and I don't remember not having my ped being privileged at the hospital as making that experience worse. It was going to be rough no matter what.[/quote]

Jaundice is the worst because it isn't serious enough to stay in the hospital but you are expected to bring them back and forth for tests. My 3rd had it. I barely remember because I was post-partum, but, it was truly miserable.[/quote]
The worst was when they discharged me (the mother) but then decided not to discharge my baby because of jaundice.  I ended up having to sleep in the lobby in a hard chair so I could bf every 2-3 hours while my baby was in Sibley's special care nursery.  Even worse was having to use a public bathroom to try to take care of myself with stitches while only about 36 hours postpartum.  If they'd decided to keep the baby before discharging me, I could have kept my bed and room for another 24 hours (per insurance) but once I was discharged I was no longer a patient.  There was a major event going on in DC so I couldn't get to and from the hospital because of road closures and crowds.

It was awful and the nurses had zero compassion.  I was so sore and hurting (I had broken my tailbone during delivery) and they would kick me out of the chair in the baby's room the moment I was done bfing.  At one point I asked if they had a plastic cup so I could have tap water from the faucet while bfing and they told me I was no longer a patient.  I was bleeding through my pads and asked if they had a backup while my husband went to a store and they told me I wasn't a patient even though I had been 2 hours earlier and hadn't expected to stay.  So awful.[/quote]

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