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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]

NP. Well I DID have to hold my baby constantly. She wasn't the sleepy newborn you all got. She cried and cried nonstop and wouldn't sleep more than 15 minutes straight. I needed help and I didn't get any and it did lead to PPD, mostly the lack of sleep. I was frustrated and couldn't get her to stop crying. The nurse told me (very rudely) that I needed to hold her more and that was the problem. [/quote]

How was your newborn when you got home?  [/quote]

You're missing the main point - that the woman JUST gave birth and possibly had a csection. They are supposed to be recovering at he hospital.  This isn't happening due to lack of nurseries.  [/quote]

That poster actually replied that she just had one bad night in the hospital but things were “bliss” when she got home.  So apparently she’s equating her one bad night with “PPD,” which is a ridiculous exaggeration and insulting to women who actually suffer from PPD.  I don’t know anyone who’s delivered at any hospital who emerged well-rested, nursery or not.  It helps to have realistic expectations going into child birth.[/quote]

while one terrible night does not equal PPD you are (once again) ridiculous in demanding that women should not  expect to get rest in the hospital, following childbirth. They should absolutely expect that and hospitals charging 10k a night should absolutely make that possible. this is a very minimal expectation that is a rule in a civilized world. I am immigrant (from Europe) and people laugh when I tell them how American mothers are forced to room with babies non-stop, leave the hospital on two days and get no (free!) home care from medical staff.[/quote]

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