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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]

And by your rationale, because you had a good experience others cannot have a bad one? [/quote]

No, but just because people have bad experiences does not mean the hospital is bad.  People have bad experiences everywhere, for all sorts of reasons, and adults know how to put that in perspective because life is not perfect.[/quote]

I personally don't think the lack of basic fall/suffocation/SIDS prevention for neonates is in the "life is not perfect" category.  I place it in the "bare minimum I expect for modern hospitals" category. It's great that you had a good experience, but the real problems come when mothers are encourage to BF around the clock and fall asleep.  Or if they can't even lift the baby out of the bassinet next to them due to c-section incision.  Or just need to sleep to recover themselves.

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