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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] You can choose to spend an extra night in the hospital but most women don't. [/quote]
Is it really only one extra night? It’s been a while but I recall it was two days for vaginal and 5 days for a c-section.[/quote]

Legally insurance companies cant restrict payment/coverage for less than 48 hours for vaginal or 96 for csection.

Regardless womens healthcare is always underwhelming. You can stay for 4 days but theres no one to help you get out of bed or bring the baby to you etc unless you have family or friends staying with you. From my understanding only the women are considered the patient of the nurse not women plus baby and the ratios for post-op for any other surgery are way less than with postpartum moms. Nurses can correct me if I am wrong.

My DH was at Hopkins at had nurses constantly at his bedside, checking in, helping him, etc with no surgery. Post op csection after 2 days labor....it was deserted and wild wild west. You get poked and stabbed and massaged but thats about it.

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This.

I avoided C-Section because it’s contraindicated for my medical history other than a life or death emergency.  But if I knew how absolutely appalling postpartum care is, I would have been even more adamant. [b]In what other possible universe is a patient responsible for the feeding and toileting of another patient hours or minutes after surgery/birth??? [/b]

I will never ever forget being in tears waiting for the nurses to come to bring me to the bathroom after I fainted the first time unaccompanied and they put me on a fall warning (had they read the chart I would have been on the fall warning to begin with…). The idea that I’d have been waiting that long pushing a button for a post-surgical complication gives me chills.[/quote]
Thank you for saying this. I thought I was taking crazy pills being the only person to notice. My DH was excluded from the post-partum floor because he wouldn't take a certain safe and effective intervention. I had 2 babies via C section and no help, other than the nurses. I left AMA after 24 hours both times. Literally nobody cared in the hospital. Really disturbing experience how little nurses and doctors care. You're just one less person buzzing the call button, buh bye, don't let the door hit you on the @$$.

I figured out how to raise the bed all the way, which made it much easier for me to retrieve the baby from the bassinet. The nurse b-----d me out for doing that. I was literally paralyzed from the waste down and expected to feed and diaper an hour's old infant. Don't even get me started on the sleep deprivation torture. [/quote]

I had the exact same experience. It was a complete nightmare. [b]The nurses seemed sadistic and wouldn't lift a finger to help me. I didn't have any milk for the first few days and they wouldn't give him a bottle even though his blood sugar was critically low. Something to do with being "baby-friendly"[/b] ---they gave him a glucose IV instead. You read that right. I think I was hallucinating I was so exhausted and I was hooked up to a catheter so I couldn't even walk around.[/quote]

Was this at GW? I also found my experience to be hell. I came out of major surgery and was not helped one bit. Immediately expected to care for the baby on my own. I didn’t even know why I was at the hospital since I was just in a room by myself with the baby. Occasionally someone checked my vitals. I went home early. [/quote]

No it was not. By sadistic I mean at one point I said something like "I don't know if I can do this, I don't know how to care for a baby" and the nurse scoffed and said "You should have thought of that nine months ago." Or I was crying that I needed to sleep and a different nurse says "Get used to it, babies don't sleep." The person who was nicest to me was the janitor who told me "You can do this! I had my first baby when I was only fifteen and I felt the same way." [/quote]

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