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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm surprised to hear that so many people had such negative hospital experiences.  I delivered both of my children at Inova Fairfax and was able to send my babies to the nursery at night (or during the day if I wanted some more sleep), including in mid-2020.  The nurses were all wonderful and vital checks overnight happened when they brought me the baby for nursing.  It's eye-opening to hear how terrible some hospitals are.[/quote]

This is why I think we need to be transparent and appropriately critical of our hospital experiences. Most people seem to have decent things to say about Inova Fairfax, VHC, and Sibley. The mixed to negative reviews are coming from GW (and maybe Georgetown but less certain on that). People need to know these things so they can pick their OB practices accordingly to where they deliver. We should let our wallets do the talking as much as possible because money is the only thing that matters to these big corporations. [/quote]

I had an excellent experience at GW FWIW.  They offered repeatedly to take my baby to the nursery but I selected not to (in large part due to covid risk, and also I didn't want to be away from my kid).  I had been awake for 38 hours, but fortunately had my husband, and we took shifts napping through the night.  We were not the greatest about frequent diaper changes and baby got a diaper rash by 5 days old but that's not the hospitals fault that we didn't know what we were doing and were totally exhausted. [/quote]

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