From: clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
Subject: Re: nipple confusion and feeding newborn glucose-water???
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:43:38 GMT

In article <1k4lmeINNa16@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> larrabee@cse.ucsc.edu (Tracy Larrabee) writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.135125.29944@nynexst.com> clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu) writes:
>>  But how can you?  You are not allowed in the nursery.  The nurseries
>>  are locked up.  You can only look through the window and see them
>>  washing your baby.  We did have rooming-in, but they still take
>>  the baby away for washing, paper-clothes changing, and probably
>>  glucose water.  During visiting hours, all babies are wisked back
>>  to the nursery for security reasons.  And during one of those visiting
>>  hours I saw a nurse give my son a pacifier but couldn't do a thing
>>  about it.  He loved it, and still loves his pacifier today!
>
>My hospital was quite different.  I spent a week *in* the nursery with
>my son.  And the babies that could go out of the nursery did not have
>to be broght back for washing or paper-clothes changing.  There
>basically were no visiting hours--it was up to the parents to police
>that.
>I felt like I was in charge
>of my child and that my help was vital.  I'm really glad they did that
>for me.  I would hate to have been at the hospital that Clare
>describes.
>
  Well remember I described my experiences before, and it sounds funny
  nowadays, like how the security guard wouldn't let my husband park
  his car near the door, so I had to walk up there myself (9 cm dilated),
  and how I was clutching the walls and nurses walked by like I wasn't
  there...

  Next time, I might as well take the taxi, since it took my husband
  significant time to find parking.  There is a street behind the hospital
  that they tell you not to park in since it is dangerous and the cars
  get ripped off or broken into quite often there.  I think my husband
  ended up parking at the hospital he works in (a few blocks away), and
  walking back.  

  Meanwhile in California, one of my e-friends is writing me about jacuzzis in
  the "Sonoma Suites"...  Here in the Bronx,  I'll be lucky if I have a
  private room for labor and delivery!  Sometimes women have the babies
  in the hallway.  Luckily my son was born Feb 10, and supposedly it is a slow
  month.  Also my daughter(?) is due late March, which is also supposed
  to be a slow month.  I'm glad I'm not due June or July or Sept!

  I'll let y'all know if I have to deliver in the hallway...

  [By the way, did any of you laugh in between contractions at the
  howling and screaming you heard from the other rooms, only to howl
  and scream yourself the next minute, then giggle and laugh again?
  Or am I weird?, probably...]

  The funny(?) thing was that my poor mother-in-law thought she could
  come only on visiting hours, and the minute she got here and was just
  about to hold my son for the first time, a nurse came in and took
  the baby away from her and threw him in the nursery where he started
  crying and then gave him a pacifier.  My m-i-l could only stand
  there and watch longingly...  After visiting hours, a security guard
  came around and checked to make sure no visitors were hiding in the
  closets or bathrooms before they could lock up the maternity ward
  and let the babies back out.  It is done for security reasons, as
  the hospital is in the middle of the Bronx.  In fact recently a lady
  dressed up as a nurse and went into a hospital in NYC, walked into
  a room, took the baby from the mother, and walked out the door.
  She was only caught later when she tried to obtain a birth certificate
  for the baby...

  Some of the birthing rooms y'all write about sound like fancy hotel
  suites, with jacuzzis, private bathrooms, nice sofas, and special beds.
  We just get the old stirrup bed and the only decorations are the
  Combat roach traps sitting in the corners on the linoleum floor!
  [I recommend Raid MAX roach traps... they work better than Combat.]
  Oh yeah... we do get a TV mounted on the ceiling, but you have to
  pay money to "activate" it.  Otherwise it just displays hospital
  rules and regulations and the time.  This is a private hospital too.

  Maybe I'll have to get accidentally pregnant once we move to California
  to experience the fancy amenities like the Sonoma Suites.  I wonder
  if they have a wine rack and indoor barbeque!  :-)
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