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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does everyone on this board know with such clarity that GW is the worst? If personal experience, how many babies are you all having and how many hospitals have you given birth in?

Genuine question, because no one is ever saying, “I preferred Sibley over GW,” everyone talks about birthing hospitals as if we have all had the opportunity to have sampled each one more than once, like a lunch spot, and cannot BELIEVE that GW brought out food out cold AGAIN.

I had a fine time at GW. Postpartum not nearly as good as L&D but I’ll go back for my next birth because the strength of L&D was well worth it. FWIW  everyone I know in real life who went to GW likes it, much like everyone know in real life feels generally good about any of the hospitals they went to.[/quote]

I don't know if they're the worst, [b]but they discharged my baby with borderline high bilirubin levels and having lost around 10% of his birthweight, with zero advice to me about how to detect whether he was getting any milk and when to supplement with formula[/b].  So I feel pretty confident in saying they were negligent, and that I'd never go to a Baby Friendly hospital again.  [/quote]

This just happened to us.  No one monitored if DD was eating or having dirty dialers[/quote]

How are these experiences so vastly different? There was this form I got in PP, that I used to check off poopy and pee diapers. It was clear from the from that a meconium diaper was critical, and one poop/one pee on Day 1, what color it should start to look like on Day 2, etc. Nurses did look at the form.

One nurse was concerned that the baby had lost too much weight (he was down 7%) and that a pediatrician might have to come talk with us, but the pediatrician said our baby was doing great — his diaper output was like 12 diapers a day, bilirubin was fine.

Back to the original post, I delivered there after the nursery reopened, had no problem sending the baby there multiple times a day, which was really helpful since I was solo because my spouse was at home overnight with our child.

The nurses (except for that one!) were great, and they would time vitals checks so that you wouldn’t be interrupted while the baby was in the nursery, so as to let you actually sleep![/quote]

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