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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] You can choose to spend an extra night in the hospital but most women don't. [/quote]
Is it really only one extra night? It’s been a while but I recall it was two days for vaginal and 5 days for a c-section.[/quote]

Legally insurance companies cant restrict payment/coverage for less than 48 hours for vaginal or 96 for csection.

Regardless womens healthcare is always underwhelming. You can stay for 4 days but theres no one to help you get out of bed or bring the baby to you etc unless you have family or friends staying with you. From my understanding only the women are considered the patient of the nurse not women plus baby and the ratios for post-op for any other surgery are way less than with postpartum moms. Nurses can correct me if I am wrong.

My DH was at Hopkins at had nurses constantly at his bedside, checking in, helping him, etc with no surgery. Post op csection after 2 days labor....it was deserted and wild wild west. You get poked and stabbed and massaged but thats about it.

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I’m sorry you had a bad experience.
I had elective section at sibley pre pandemic. I felt very well cared for and was able to send baby to the nursery overnight to get some rest. The nurses were angels. I was there 4 nights and almost didn’t want to leave lol[/quote]

Sibley is the only hospital in the area to have a baby nursery from my understanding but its an hour drive for me.

I actually dont want the baby out of my room as a personal choice since I nurse (my choice doesnt have to be anyone elses). I want PP women to be covered at the same ratio as other post op patients- regardless of their mode of birth- and for the infants to be included in their patient ratio. It would be very difficult to establish supply without pumping or nursing overnight (i.e &gt;4hours) in those first few days. But again, the choice kind of feels like no help at all due to &quot;nursing-friendly&quot; or a baby nursery which isnt supportive of how nursing works.

Again there's these binary choices in womens healthcare instead of expansion of choices just like you either have a non-bonding C section or vaginal birth.

I was told the hospital wont do a golden hour with a csection even though its evidence based. Obviously if contraindicated it wouldnt be done.  But if you have a vaginal birth, you get it (outside of contraindications).[/quote]

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