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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was awake 50 hours straight (full workday, then long labor)  and then given my baby to care for the first night at GW. I was delirious and could have easily been one of the moms who dropped their baby. I could hardly walk or see straight to get up for feeds I was so tired and nurses never offered to take her so I could rest. It’s about time they brought back the nursery, but shame on them for having ever gotten rid of it in the first place. [/quote]

+1.  Similar experience.  It was a lawsuit waiting to happen.  I would have absolutely sued if I had hurt my baby given GW was forcing me to take care of it by myself when I'd just had surgery and had been awake for days.  Oh and I was on opioids.  I remember feeling dizzy multiple times when I stood up to get my baby to breastfeed and could have easily fallen with the baby in my arms.  Giving a post csection mom strong pain pills and then leaving and closing the door to the room while the baby is across the room and the csection mom has to painfully make it over to the baby is criminal.  [/quote]

Geez, people.  Where are your partners, doulas, friends?  I’m glad the nursery is an option now, but I think people shouldn’t be putting 100% of the responsibility for newborn care on the hospital.  [/quote]

my husband was taking care of my other kids and i don't have friends in the area. it is absolutely 100% responsibility of the hospital to care for the newborn for the 2-3 days they are actually in the hospital. it's what is done in civilized world and mothers often spend longer in hospitals here (because one day doesn't cost 10k).[/quote]

They ARE caring for the newborn.  I delivered at GW sans nursery.  They check on the newborn for all sorts of tests, etc.  just because they’re not cradling the newborn lovingly in their arms so you can sleep does not mean they are not providing care.  [/quote]

"Caring" for a baby doesn't mean just letting it cry in a bassinet, cold and hungry. They should not expect the mother to be caring for a baby after an operation or a long labor! [/quote]

+1.  The medication many women are on after a csection says to not operate machinery.  But they are leaving you in a room by yourself to care for your newborn for hours.  I remember being so utterly exhausted and in such pain.  Having to get up and carry an infant back to my bed was awful.  I can't believe they were billing my insurance company for my stay considering I barely received any care.

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