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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]

nobody is saying "hospitals are bad". people are saying that postpartum care in many local hospitals could be much better.

and we have all put this in perspective. none of us, i bet, goes around muttering about postpartum care 24/7. this is a topic about postpartum care at local (and it seems nation-wide) hospitals. so discussing this issue here is putting in perspective. then we will move on with our lives and won't think bout this for who knows how long.[/quote]

I don’t disagree with you, but a lot of the posters were pretty categorical about their negative assessment of GW and I don’t think that’s backed up by that hospital’s stats.  I understand the people get emotional about their birth experiences, but by objective measures it’s a good hospital.[/quote]

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