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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was induced due to preeclampsia and was awake 48 hours for the induction before giving birth.  Was on magnesium the whole time, not allowed to eat.  Gave birth, baby was fine.  [b]Nurses then said I could not eat for another 48 hours and was to be on magnesium again. [/b] If you don't know, magnesium can make you tired and just not "with it."  Twenty-four hours after birth during which I slept for maybe 45 minutes at a time,  I asked (full of shame) if the baby could go to the nursery.  [b]The nurses said they didn't have a nursery (baby-friendly hospital) and they could just tie the baby to me if I wanted to sleep.[/b]  Spouse had to go home to get a change of clothes, so wasn't in the room.  I was starving, sleep-deprived, and on medication that made me not clear-headed.  But no, I had to stay with that baby.

Baby-friendly isn't mom-friendly, and I would imagine at times yields higher risks and poorer outcomes for babies.[/quote]

I'm surprised there wasn't a bassinet. That sounds quite odd. [/quote]

PP here.  I had been moved to a non-birth-recovery room (I don't know what to call it).  I was in a post-birth room with a bassinet for the first day?  Then I was considered a normal medical patient and moved to a room without a bassinet.

"Tied to me" = the nursing staff came in and did some sort of intense wrapping like those wraps you use to carry your baby around in.  They even brought in other people to demonstrate the wrapping on me. [/quote]

they wanted you to sleep with the baby in a wrap tied to you? that is absolutely insane. and I’m still worried about you getting no nutrition for 4 days. at the point you were moved out of the maternity ward why didn’t someone take the baby home? [/quote]

Because I was supposed to breastfeed, ofc.  Can't have the baby away from the mother.  Also, I imagine that my lack of nutrition made BF-ing harder.  Baby was also a bit early so milk wasn't exactly flowing.  I remember having multiple nurses just painfully kneading at my breasts to get the tiniest bits of colostrum out.

Also, I was not supposed to stand, particularly not while holding the baby, due to the magnesium.  So even if there was a bassinet in the room, I wouldn't have been allowed to walk to it to put the baby down or pick it up.

All-in-all, it was a truly horrendous experience.  I felt completely erased as a human.[/quote]

Bassinets don't have to be across the room. They can be right next to the bed, and at a level where you do not have to lift the infant over the edge.

I'm sorry you had a traumatic experience. It sounds so bizarre for that to be a hospital practice in a country that emphasizes the Back to Sleep practices to decrease SIDS.[/quote]

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