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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are deservedly angry when our insurers are being billed between 20 and 50 grand for a two or three day hospital stay where we are expected to bring husbands, family members, and doulas to provide nursing care for ourselves and our new babies. What are our insurers and us paying for exactly? Women and babies deserve better, but they will only happen when women collectively stop sniping at each other and saying things like husbands and families need to "man up" to help in the hospital and there is a cost benefit analysis on dropping babies and it's okay if the baby isn't seriously injured. We ALL deserve better.

What other hospital unit would you be in and not receive adequate nursing care and support and be expected to bring your own? It's utterly ridiculous. There is clearly some GW hospital administrator on this thread and some other self loathing women with too much of a "pick yourself up by the boot straps" mentality who feels that being vulnerable and needing support during a major medical and life event is an unforgivable weakness of character.

And to the PP who asked, one nurse to 5 mothers and babies for a total of ten patients is ridiculous! Have you ever taken care of 10 people at once? Of course postpartum mom's are dying in droves in the US. Their nurses aren't trained to recognize common complications of delivery and they have far to many patients to take care of. A ratio of 1 nurse to 3 women is what proposed RN ratios are calling for.

This stuff will never change unless we demand it.[/quote]

This is an odd place to yell about this.  GW has reopened the nursery and women are not dying in droves at GW, with or without a nursery.

Your ire seems misplaced.  [/quote]

Another poster.  You're wrong.  The maternal death rate (which is often POST labor) in this country is horrible.  Practices like those of GW are to blame.

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No, GW is an excellent hospital and does not have a high maternal mortality rate.  A hospital in DC was closed because of deaths -- that hospital was not GW.

The maternal mortality rate in this country is abysmal and alarming.  Focus on it, not on GW.  [/quote]

wtf? No.  I will focus on GW and the awful post-partum care they gave me, discharging my baby borderline jaundiced and having lost too much weight, and completely ignoring whether he was getting any breastmilk at all. I will also, on a consumer level, judge the extremely uncomfortable post-partum experience, and absolutely go elsewhere for any future hospitalization I or my family may need.  None of that detracts from overall infant mortality and maternal  mortality, and I actually think it is a symptom of the overall larger problems.  [/quote]

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