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No, we're talking about basic safety and fall prevention for very vulnerable patients (newborns). Fall prevention is a basic safety issue in hospitals. Leaving a newborn with a drugged/exhausted/post-surgery non-ambulatory mom is NOT safe.  That's the whole point here. You're acting like nurses are babysitters; they're actually caring for TWO vulnerable patients.  [b]I mean, what would you think if the post-partum nurses were themselves on morphine, couldn't walk, had just gotten out of surgery, or hadn't slept for 4 days? Would you think they were fit to care for infants, or anyone?[/b]   [/quote]

This is such a great damn point. [/quote]

No, it’s more hyperbole.  You act like you were literally left alone after birth.  Nurses at GW checked on me constantly.  If you ask them to help you swaddle the baby or put the baby somewhere, they do it.  My bassinet was RIGHT next to my bed.   I didn’t have to hold the baby constantly.  I guess the take-away is that people’s care needs vary because the anger about GW is not my experience at all.[/quote]

For what it's worth, at least one poster on this thread has related that she did not receive regular check-ins from the postpartum nurse assigned to her. Others have reported on this and other threads that when they asked for help, they were told that they needed to do whatever it was themselves or get their husbands to do it. I know several people who have delivered at GW who have been discharged with alarming jaundice levels in their babies and/or alarming postpartum symptoms (such as the headache and climbing BP a PP mentioned). I know ZERO people who have delivered at GW who said that it was a relaxing recovery period for them. And that's between people who delivered with the OBs and the midwives. Everyone I know was either very pleased with their L&D experience or at least not upset and traumatized by it, but those same people had miserable postpartum experiences.

I appreciate the idea behind things like getting rid of the nursery so that rooming in happens. I think that the principles in play are in the right place, but they seem to be taken to the extreme. If I had a baby at home and then proceeded to take prescription painkillers at home by myself while caring for my baby, literally everyone on this board would think that was a bad idea and would suggest that support was needed. Cops would be called. I could lose custody, if I did that.[/quote]

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