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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Highly recommend finding a doctor that delivers at Sibley. It’s a community hospital that specializes in labor and delivery. The hospital was just rebuilt so everything is nice and new. And yes, contrary to another poster, it does have a NICU. I know because my first kid spent two weeks there. Their NICU takes babies born at 32 weeks or later. Any baby born before 32 weeks will be transferred to Georgetown.  I wouldn’t want to have delivered at Georgetown for anything. [b] You don’t want a huge teaching hospital to give birth. Way too chaotic.[/b] [/quote]

I delivered at a huge teaching hospital and it was FINE. There were a lot of people suddenly in the rooms for the acutal moment of delivery (fellow, attending, probably an R1 somewhere in the background, I couldn't tell, and the nurses) but before and after it was pretty quiet.[/quote]

Sibley actually does not have a NICU, which is a defined medical term. It has a "Special Care Nursery." Feel free to google yourself if you do not believe me. It is not the same thing as a NICU in terms of the interventions they can perform and the education/training level of the staff and it's why they can't take pre-32 week babies (and, in fact, will transfer babies born after 32 weeks that have special needs or that are unusually small). The transfer to Georgetown can be a problem if you don't like religious restrictions. I don't want to get into a debate here, but you may not want to unexpectedly deliver a pre-32 weeker at Georgetown if you don't share that hospital's religious convictions.[/quote]

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