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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting prenatal care at RHJ and was asking my doc at my last prenatal appointment about some labor questions. I was encouraged to hear that you are allowed to move as much as you need during labor at Sibley (permitting baby is doing well and depending on epidural status, etc).

However, I forgot to ask about a few baby-friendly items: do they give you immediate skin-to-skin time after delivery? Do they rush to cut the cord or can you wait until it stops pulsing? (Again, assuming all is well with mom and baby)

TIA!

I had a baby at Sibley with RHJ in 2017, so a long time ago. Both of the things you are asking about are pretty standard unless you specifically want something different.

Have you looked at the birth plan template on their site?

https://www.rhjn-obgyn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2021/05/RHJ-Birthing-Plan-Template-.pdf

Note that on page 4, those things are specifically addressed.

As for the hating on the baby friendly designation, I get it. I really do. But I think that the intention of programs like this gets lost pretty easily. The point of "baby friendly" is to support breastfeeding. I get that there are women who don't want to/can't breastfeed, but in the past, women were not encouraged to breastfeed in the hospital, babies were given formula by nurses in the nursery even when moms specifically asked them not to do that, etc. Even if you are a person who does not want to breastfeed your own baby, you should support the provision of those services to other women who do want to breastfeed. I understand the sh*tty way that hospitals have implemented the program, but they are not taking the nurseries away just to punish moms who have c-sections and it is certainly not an attempt for nurses to provide even less postpartum care than they already were.

No one is testing to stop women from being supported breastfeeding. Those hospitals leave bleeding exhausted pain med soaked mothers alone with infants without adequate support and care. That isn’tv supporting breastfeeding it’s close to mandating it at the expense of mom. It’s draconian and not in the best interest of mom or baby. Infants have actually died from being left with postpartum moms that simply could not stay awake

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting prenatal care at RHJ and was asking my doc at my last prenatal appointment about some labor questions. I was encouraged to hear that you are allowed to move as much as you need during labor at Sibley (permitting baby is doing well and depending on epidural status, etc).

However, I forgot to ask about a few baby-friendly items: do they give you immediate skin-to-skin time after delivery? Do they rush to cut the cord or can you wait until it stops pulsing? (Again, assuming all is well with mom and baby)

TIA!

I had a baby at Sibley with RHJ in 2017, so a long time ago. Both of the things you are asking about are pretty standard unless you specifically want something different.

Have you looked at the birth plan template on their site?

https://www.rhjn-obgyn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2021/05/RHJ-Birthing-Plan-Template-.pdf

Note that on page 4, those things are specifically addressed.

As for the hating on the baby friendly designation, I get it. I really do. But I think that the intention of programs like this gets lost pretty easily. The point of "baby friendly" is to support breastfeeding. I get that there are women who don't want to/can't breastfeed, but in the past, women were not encouraged to breastfeed in the hospital, babies were given formula by nurses in the nursery even when moms specifically asked them not to do that, etc. Even if you are a person who does not want to breastfeed your own baby, you should support the provision of those services to other women who do want to breastfeed. I understand the sh*tty way that hospitals have implemented the program, but they are not taking the nurseries away just to punish moms who have c-sections and it is certainly not an attempt for nurses to provide even less postpartum care than they already were.

Anonymous wrote:I'm getting prenatal care at RHJ and was asking my doc at my last prenatal appointment about some labor questions. I was encouraged to hear that you are allowed to move as much as you need during labor at Sibley (permitting baby is doing well and depending on epidural status, etc).

However, I forgot to ask about a few baby-friendly items: do they give you immediate skin-to-skin time after delivery? Do they rush to cut the cord or can you wait until it stops pulsing? (Again, assuming all is well with mom and baby)

TIA!

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I wonder who is really behind these "movements" in baby/mom care. It sounds like someone who really hates women or at least someone who really wants to ENSURE that they suffer as much as possible during and after childbirth.

I had a very difficult labor and a very large child at Sibley, and the best thing that ever happened to me was the nursery. I was completely exhausted, dehydrated, almost dead - how would I be able to care for a baby in my room immediately after delivery? I couldn't even stand up.

My husband was caring for our 18-month-old and in-and-out of the hospital, and I was far more interested in my friends and family helping them than helping me.

Sorry, not what the OP asked for, but I needed to get that out there.

Anonymous wrote:Baby Friendly doesn't really have to do with cord-clamping. STS is a given unless something is wrong with you or baby.

Baby Friendly's mission is to support breastfeeding as in... no nursery, baby rooming in, no formula unless medically necessary, discouraging pacifiers, hospital can't get FREE formula (they have to pay for it), etc. See here: https://www.babyfriendlyusa.org/for-facilities/practice-guidelines/10-steps-and-international-code/

If all of this is your goal then this is something you have control over. You can decide if you want baby in the room constantly, feed baby on demand, etc etc. You can do all of this in a non-baby friendly hospital. In fact, I find that baby friendly does not equate to mom-friendly. I have taken care of so many moms without a support person who literally cannot take care of the baby in the room because they are recovering/miserable from a C-section. In these cases, if mom wishes, baby goes to the nursery so someone can watch him/her if they spit up, need a diaper changed, etc. I would hate for the mom to not have this option in a baby-friendly facility.

Anonymous wrote:Sibley does the things you ask but I echo other posters in their dislike for the 'baby friendly' model. I think it verges on negligence for maternal care TBH.