Quick tangential question as I’ll be giving birth in the next 2 weeks. Did you also have to sleep in your mask? I will be induced at 38 weeks due to a pre-existing condition and with my first pregnancy it took a long time. I was overnight in L&D 3 nights and then recovery.

I assume my DH and I will be required to sleep at night in masks?

OMG OP had to wear a noninvasive mask.

OP you need parenting classes the first rule of parenting your kid's health comes first.

Shame on you.

I've had six kids gladly would have worn a mask.

Anonymous wrote:Also cracking up at:

-the notion that shift changes should have been planned around this one woman's labor schedule

-the idea of a new mom so pissed at wearing a mask that she is posting on DCUM instead of focusing on her recovery and her baby

-the idea that someone would change their entire hospital/doctor based on this post

Oh hi. OP here. Still at the hospital awaiting discharge. Baby is asleep, I am alone in my hospital room, as I have been for hours and hours. Husband is home taking care of the other kid. Posting on DCUM is not taking away my focus on my recovery and taking care of the baby. Sheesh. Have you ever been admitted for days in a hospital? It is boring as get out. I’ve made all the phone calls to friends and family, texted with co-workers, taken a bajillion pictures. I am really not focused on this one event. But people should know.

I was led to believe by others who have delivered babies during the pandemic that although it is usually written hospital policy that you have to wear a mask during labor and delivery, that you will be allowed to go without a mask by the nurses anyway. And that was the case. I wore a mask during the early stages of labor, but the nurses said I could take it off, so I did. That is, until a new nurse came on and started to enforce the written policy. It was really unlucky timing for me because that meant I had to wear a mask during the very hardest part of labor.

If people are planning on delivering at Holy Cross, I don’t want them to be blindsided like I was.

Also, the way in which she asked for me to put on a mask was completely unacceptable. I was in so much pain that I was unable to speak, let alone reach over with my own hands and put a mask on my face. There was no way I could comply IMMEDIATELY in the way she wanted me to. Then she spoke incredibly sternly with me, a patient in enormous pain.

Most of my Holy Cross nurses have been wonderful and caring, but people should know this has the potential to happen at this hospital. There are many choices in our area for care.

Try to focus on your healthy baby now and think positive thoughts.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here is Holy Cross safety procedure. Masking at all times is required, even if patients. This shouldn't have surprised you.

https://www.holycrosshealth.org/health-and-wellness/safe-care/

do they mask patients in surger? No, they do not. there is obviously a difference between a vaccinated, covid negative woman in active labor, and a hacking patient coughing in the ER waiting room.

And yet you fail to see the difference between a woman in active labor and a patient being operated upon.

Signed,
Someone's whose workplace has been hit with COVID in the last week even though we're all vaccinated.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to continue having skilled nurses in the room while you deliver your baby, wear your mask. It’s for the nurses safety. Even though you had a negative test and are vaccinated, test can be wrong and we all know the Delta break through the vaccinations. It’s not all about you mama! Sounds like you delivered a healthy baby with no lasting negative affects from wearing a mask. Also it’s not just holy Cross.

So this kind of pisses me off. Why can’t it be about giving what comfort we can to the laboring mother? I would be annoyed to wear a mask given full vaccination and negative test. I can guarantee you it would not be policy if men were giving birth.

Only here would people tell a mother during labor, it’s not all about you mama! In a condescending way.
We have got to do better with maternal care.

Seriously. That more than one person is responding saying that a woman in active labor should be thinking about other people’s needs and comfort above her own is sick and disgusting. That many women have been brainwashed to feel this way is a sign of a failing society. We absolutely must do better.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And if the woman in the throes of childbirth refuses, takes it off every time they put it on and/or fights back, what’re the hospital people going to do? Abandon her? Physically restrain her? Shoot her up with chemical restraints? People in medical facilities too commonly forget that patients are not prisoners or children and it is the professionals who owe the duty to the patient, not the other way around.

I hope more people start doing this.

No, but if I were your medical professional, I would exit the room and cover myself in more complete PPE, the kind we use for confirm positive patients. I would take time away from your care to protect myself and my other patients. I would not stay in an enclosed space with an unmasked person. And that would impact your care.

Similarly if you were brandishing a knife or trying to attack me, I would stop care and make the scene safe for myself. Same as if you lit candles or tried to smoke a cigarette in your room. I would require you comply with hospital policy that protects you and everyone else.

You like drama, eh?

+1

Ridiculous amount of drama in that post.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to continue having skilled nurses in the room while you deliver your baby, wear your mask. It’s for the nurses safety. Even though you had a negative test and are vaccinated, test can be wrong and we all know the Delta break through the vaccinations. It’s not all about you mama! Sounds like you delivered a healthy baby with no lasting negative affects from wearing a mask. Also it’s not just holy Cross.

oh ffs. it is all about the woman physically pushing out the baby. she was vaxxed and had a negative test. forcing her to wear a mask was absolutely irrational.

+1

That is irrational.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to continue having skilled nurses in the room while you deliver your baby, wear your mask. It’s for the nurses safety. Even though you had a negative test and are vaccinated, test can be wrong and we all know the Delta break through the vaccinations. It’s not all about you mama! Sounds like you delivered a healthy baby with no lasting negative affects from wearing a mask. Also it’s not just holy Cross.

So this kind of pisses me off. Why can’t it be about giving what comfort we can to the laboring mother? I would be annoyed to wear a mask given full vaccination and negative test. I can guarantee you it would not be policy if men were giving birth.

Only here would people tell a mother during labor, it’s not all about you mama! In a condescending way.
We have got to do better with maternal care.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And if the woman in the throes of childbirth refuses, takes it off every time they put it on and/or fights back, what’re the hospital people going to do? Abandon her? Physically restrain her? Shoot her up with chemical restraints? People in medical facilities too commonly forget that patients are not prisoners or children and it is the professionals who owe the duty to the patient, not the other way around.

I hope more people start doing this.

No, but if I were your medical professional, I would exit the room and cover myself in more complete PPE, the kind we use for confirm positive patients. I would take time away from your care to protect myself and my other patients. I would not stay in an enclosed space with an unmasked person. And that would impact your care.

Similarly if you were brandishing a knife or trying to attack me, I would stop care and make the scene safe for myself. Same as if you lit candles or tried to smoke a cigarette in your room. I would require you comply with hospital policy that protects you and everyone else.

Great! I would have no problem with you wearing whatever PPE you need to feel safe. And I have worked in hospitals before — it takes at most a few minutes to put on the extra protection. In the course of hours long labor it would be an insignificant amount of time, so stop with the drama.

Anonymous wrote:OP here is Holy Cross safety procedure. Masking at all times is required, even if patients. This shouldn't have surprised you.

https://www.holycrosshealth.org/health-and-wellness/safe-care/

do they mask patients in surger? No, they do not. there is obviously a difference between a vaccinated, covid negative woman in active labor, and a hacking patient coughing in the ER waiting room.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And if the woman in the throes of childbirth refuses, takes it off every time they put it on and/or fights back, what’re the hospital people going to do? Abandon her? Physically restrain her? Shoot her up with chemical restraints? People in medical facilities too commonly forget that patients are not prisoners or children and it is the professionals who owe the duty to the patient, not the other way around.

I hope more people start doing this.

No, but if I were your medical professional, I would exit the room and cover myself in more complete PPE, the kind we use for confirm positive patients. I would take time away from your care to protect myself and my other patients. I would not stay in an enclosed space with an unmasked person. And that would impact your care.

Similarly if you were brandishing a knife or trying to attack me, I would stop care and make the scene safe for myself. Same as if you lit candles or tried to smoke a cigarette in your room. I would require you comply with hospital policy that protects you and everyone else.

You like drama, eh?

Anonymous wrote:If you want to continue having skilled nurses in the room while you deliver your baby, wear your mask. It’s for the nurses safety. Even though you had a negative test and are vaccinated, test can be wrong and we all know the Delta break through the vaccinations. It’s not all about you mama! Sounds like you delivered a healthy baby with no lasting negative affects from wearing a mask. Also it’s not just holy Cross.

oh ffs. it is all about the woman physically pushing out the baby. she was vaxxed and had a negative test. forcing her to wear a mask was absolutely irrational.

Anonymous wrote:If you want to continue having skilled nurses in the room while you deliver your baby, wear your mask. It’s for the nurses safety. Even though you had a negative test and are vaccinated, test can be wrong and we all know the Delta break through the vaccinations. It’s not all about you mama! Sounds like you delivered a healthy baby with no lasting negative affects from wearing a mask. Also it’s not just holy Cross.

So this kind of pisses me off. Why can’t it be about giving what comfort we can to the laboring mother? I would be annoyed to wear a mask given full vaccination and negative test. I can guarantee you it would not be policy if men were giving birth.

Also cracking up at:

-the notion that shift changes should have been planned around this one woman's labor schedule

-the idea of a new mom so pissed at wearing a mask that she is posting on DCUM instead of focusing on her recovery and her baby

-the idea that someone would change their entire hospital/doctor based on this post