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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most DC hospitals are requiring a COVID test before admitting to labor and delivery. If you’re being induced/scheduled c-section. They’ll have you come in 2 or 3 days early to do the test. If you go into labor on your own, they’ll do the test while you’re in triage. My results were in within 30 minutes. I assume that’s rapid, and the swab went WAY up there for about 5-10 seconds. It feels similar to the pinch you feel when you get water up your nose. You will continue to wear a mask through delivery even after testing negative. The test mostly dictates how much PPE the doctors and nurses need to wear while interacting with you. It also means you and your support person cannot leave your room, and that the baby may need to be isolated.

The rest really isn’t that bad, and by refusing it, you’re unnecessarily wasting resources, and inconveniencing both the staff and yourselves during the duration of your stay. [/quote]

I followed my child when he was born and my wife was stitched up because im paranoid about switching babies and stuff.

youre telling me i cant do that now? what if i singlehandedly decide to follow my child to wherever they take him? [/quote]

Hospitals have security.

The delivering woman and you, her partner, can choose to be swabbed or not. Hospitals have policies (and are under some federal regulations) about how they respond to those choices. If a woman is in active labor and cannot be transported, then it is an emergency situation and she must be taken care of. That does not necessarily extend to support persons or spouses.

This is also for your protection, and the protection of the delivering woman and her baby. Do you really want to stay on a unit where people can refuse testing and not be treated as if COVID positive? Remember that an estimated 40% of people who test positive have no symptoms.

Where I work, if mom and dad have tested negative and are willing to wear masks, the dad could follow anywhere he could go if there was not a pandemic going on. [/quote]

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