Sentences with phrase «about their hospital experiences»

Like birthing rooms, birthing centers were created as a response to women's complaints about their hospital experiences.

We are now planning to conduct a series of focus groups designed to get kids (and parents) talking about their hospital experiences to find out what they found frightening.

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By leveraging AI and Natural Language Processing, hospitals have access to near - real time information about patient experience.

A Melbourne hospital is the first in Australia to adopt an early warning blood test for the potential deadly condition pre-eclampsia, which is experienced by about one in 20 women during their pregnancies.

I told my Pastoral Care supervisor at the hospital about the revelation I was experiencing concerning prayer.

I'm sorry about your bad hospital experience.

All in all, I wish I spent less time in my early pregnancy watching YouTube videos and reading blogs and worring about fighting with the hospital and doctor, and more time doing what I'm doing now: talking to people who actually live where I do and have given birth at my hospital, who had positive experiences.

I skipped right over hospital stuff and continued reading about bringing the baby home and experiencing the first few months with a new baby.

You and I have talked before about how frustrated I am with how my breastfeeding experience turned out, but the information you've added here about myths they tell you in the hospital makes it even worse.

If moms take some time to learn about their choices and take an Independent Childbirth Class (not hospital based) or read GOOD books (not WTEWE) then they will be in a better position to have a positive birth experience which can empower them!

Education during pregnancy rarely has anything serious to do with breastfeeding, and since breastfeeding is perceived by most pre-parenthood women to be a natural, instinctive thing instead of a learned behavior (on both mom & baby's part) if it doesn't go absolutely perfectly from the first moments they may feel something is wrong with THEM and clam up about it while quietly giving the baby the hospital - offered bottle along with the bag of formula samples they give out «just in case» even if you explicitly tell them you're breastfeeding (which was my experience with my firstborn in 2004 and one of the many highly informed reasons I chose to birth my next two at home).

In addition to getting to know each other over the course of the mom's pregnancy — learning about her hopes, fears, and wants for her birth experience — home birthing moms also have birth plans to clarify things like which post-birth procedures the family does and doesn't want (like vitamin K shot, eye ointment, etc.), and preferred hospitals and care providers to call in case of transfer.

I have spoken to the hospital staff about my experience and they are now working to keep babies with their breastfeeding mothers and ensuring they get the right support should they need to stay in the general hospital.

So, people who were previously happy with their hospital experience are convinced that there was actually something horrible and dehumanising about the experience, and that all of the interventions they had were «unnecessary» and violating.

Yes, fewer women in the homebirth group experienced severe acute maternal morbidity, but that's nothing to crow about if one of them died and might have been saved in the hospital.

The CPM is the only midwifery credential that requires knowledge about and experience in out - of - hospital settings.

I felt like I had to defend myself to everyone who knew he had to go back in the hospital and tell them about the breastfeeding experience.

As time went on, and she learned more about the natural birthing process and the current state of maternity care (as well as reflecting on her unmedicated hospital birth experience), she knew that she would not want to birth another child in the hospital, so as she and her husband Matt looked forward to conceiving their second child she had already decided on hiring a licensed midwife and planning to birth at home.

This book is 100 pages total, including 37 pages of unbiased information describing hospital procedures and birth options so you can be truly prepared to make informed decisions about your birth experience.

SUNNY GAULT: Yeah and that's a really good point to make, but Moon I know we kind of got interrupted with your story so continue, tell us more about your experience, it sounds like your first two, not so great experiences in hospitals?

I did not experience any pregnancy complications due to my weight, but I wasn't taken seriously about my morning sickness when I tried to get medical attention and ended up in the hospital dehydrated two times.

AFRICAN MOON: So I'll start off by saying I had my third child at home, so I think that sort of talks a little bit about my experiences in the hospital, but I, you know, I want to say that I think the word baby - friendly is sort of a chicken statement, like I really want to voice that because they want for hospitals to focus on breastfeeding so why are we so afraid to say that?

I did deliver at two different hospitals for the three delivery experiences that I had and one, I think only one, was deemed baby friendly, which I know we're going to talk about a little bit later on, so, that's me.

And we'll talk about those steps in the second half of our conversation, but moms before us kind of dive into all that I really wanted to get your take, we've all delivered in hospitals here, and I wanted to get your take on how that experience was as far as how these hospitals encouraged you to breastfeed?

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Fewer women in the homebirth group experienced severe acute maternal morbidity, but that's nothing to crow about if one of them died and might have been saved in the hospital.

I mostly think it should be legal because the idea of dragging women by force into a hospital is... abhorrent But I also belive women are either choosing homebirth because they have bought into a false belief about how safe it is or they are choosing an experience over safety.

Private tours may not be offered at every hospital, but what I like about the hospitals that do offer private tours are, the person giving the tour usually has more experience to answer your questions with more accuracy and more current information and they usually have more time to show you around and talk to you.

Women who have had children before and were disappointed or even angry about their experience in a hospital may also decide to have a home birth.

She didn't remind me of her 20 + years of experience attending more than 1000 births, all the success she has had as a midwife, how conservative she is about choosing to transport to the hospital if needed, etc..

But there are an equal amount of positive stories about the birth experience, even in hospitals.

This is really interesting to me... and my experience in two Israeli hospitals has been very very different than the accusations I have read about in the media.

Getting back to birth, though, what I would like to see is more birth centers, more midwives like the one in the NPR story, and less of both the «classic» hospital birthing experience and also less of NCB madness like «power birthing» (shudder) that I just this morning learned about from a comment on this blog.

Write a letter or send an email to the hospital administrator and let them know about good breastfeeding experiences or bad breastfeeding experiences in their hospital.

In Eli's pregnancy, we attended the Research Centre at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester — you can read more about our own experiences at the Rainbow Clinic here.

In the end, although hospital birth is not the cozy homebirth experience the NCB group sings about, I know I can handle it.

Researchers at WakeMed Health and Hospitals, Raleigh, NC, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, found that, while athletes are generally knowledgeable about the signs and symptoms of concussion, there is a «gross under reporting» of concussion events, with a large proportion of those surveyed indicating that they continued to participate in both games and practices while experiencing symptoms.

You can also talk to others about their experiences (including online in places such as mothering.com); read stories; watch videos, (including Youtube) of home and hospital births; and ideally attend the meeting of a homebirth group.

I am very sad to hear about some of the bad experiences with hospital births in the other comments.

And it was a natural birth, happy experience, doctors and nurses followed my birth plan, and made it about the family in a hospital.

And I would bet that the hospital horror stories are more to do with the womens «feelings» about her birth experience rather than the actual damaged / dead babies from the home birth horror stories.

«In my experience, the percentage is about 90 percent now at the major hospitals,» said Dr. Cynthia Wong, professor of anesthesiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

And as the vice-director of Human Rights in Childbirth, I work to establish women's fundamental right to make decisions about their bodies and babies, a right that I've always been quick to say must reach beyond courtrooms and hospitals into our daily conversations and experiences.

If you are struggling with breastfeeding after a difficult birth or some unpleasant experiences in hospital and would like another way to try to initiate breastfeeding, baby led latch and breast crawl are options which are open to you for about the first 12 weeks after birth.

She blogged about her brief stay in a mental hospital for postpartum depression, appealing to readers who helped her get through the difficult and painful experience.

Thinking about and preparing for the hospital stay before it happens can help reduce anxiety and calm some of the fears that you may be experiencing.

Let me tell you something about my experience working in a Level 4 NICU at a large urban birth center (hospital).

bubbasixpack, maybe you should find out more about other people's experiences with hospital labors under the care of OBs before you continue generalizing your own.

Beliefs about hospitals are a factor, but in most of the cases I know personally the issue is not a terrible prior experience but a belief that hospitals are terrible based on others telling them so.

And hospital experiences these days are more about continuous monitoring, position limitations due to it and the IV and tons of negligence performed by residents, which is slowly changing and improving, faster in some places than others.