It is also a good idea to
have your baby in your hospital room with you, sometimes called «rooming in.»
Not exact matches
We failed to make sure all
hospitals have in -
room boarding which is best for mother,
baby, and family.
Some
hospitals also
have a policy that you can
have a different number of people
in the
room during labor versus when the
baby is actually being born.
After she left the
room I
had to remind him the
baby was OURS and they could not legally keep us
in the
hospital in order to force breastfeeding.
Things like if you want your partner to cut the umbilical cord or if you want to delay cord clamping, if you plan on doing anything with your
baby's cord blood, if you want to hold the
baby immediately after they are born or after they are cleaned up, if you want their little footprints
in a special book, if you want skin - to - skin with you or your partner, if you want to try and breastfeed immediately after delivery or
have a lactation consultant come (helpful especially for first - time moms), if you
'd like your
baby to stay
in your
room as long as possible or get taken to the nursery (if your
hospital has one) to be evaluated, and if you want your partner to go with your
baby if they need any special care outside of the delivery
room.
That's one reason experts recommend
having your
baby stay
in your
room at the
hospital.
•
Would arranging for a
room in another area of the
hospital such as the pediatrics or maternity floor make it permissable for the
baby to stay with you?
• If the
baby can not be brought to your
room,
would you be allowed to nurse
in another part of the
hospital?
First, it is cold
in most
hospital rooms, too cold for a
baby to be uncovered, bathed and dried without
having trouble regulating his or her temperature.
Because I didn't hear about it when I was pregnant and
had my
babies, and if it's been around for a while obviously the
hospitals that I gave birth
in never made any mention of it, so I'm assuming they weren't
baby - friendly back then, but after I gave birth I knew that a lactation consultant was going to go on to the, come into the
room, well actually at the first child you already know the rounds, you know, what's going to happen, you know, how long you're going to be there, all that stuff.
HOPE LIEN: We did stay
in the
hospital, it was a very small
hospital but the staff there was extremely accommodating and they kind of were able to give us like our own little space and so we were kind of go back and forth between
rooms and the
baby would go back and forth between us and then yeah and we
would also spend a lot of time with our birth mom and it was just it was a really memorable experience for sure.
This means you must BF on demand at the
hospital (so
have the
baby sleep
in your
room), this means you MUST make sure no well - intentioned nurses give your
baby formula so you can rest or because they thought the
baby was hungry — the
baby won't be hungry enough to stimulate your production enough.
Also, if tv was so detrimental for
babies under age 2, why does every
hospital room in the pediatric ward
has television set that hoovers over the bed.
I don't remember being overcome with anxiety
in the way I
would have been six months later if I was hanging out at a
hospital and my
baby boy was being tended to
in a separate
room.
This includes encouraging skin - to - skin contact as soon as possible after delivery, encouraging
baby to latch on as soon after delivery as possible (for both vaginal deliveries and for C - sections),
having a certified lactation consultant
in the
hospital, and
having baby «
room in» with mom.
Fortunately,
in my situation, the
hospital policies already included
having mom and
baby together
in the recovery
room and other early bonding practices.
If you are
in a
hospital,
have your
baby room -
in with you.
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«I
have seen computer printouts of «the schedule»
in the
hospital room with parents trying to follow it with
babies less than 24 hours old — the
baby left to cry
in the bassinet because it was «not time to feed yet.»»
When the
baby arrives, it isn't likely that Aries dad is going to be the calm presence
in the
hospital room, but rather the excitable, fiery one who
has no trouble at all shouting out to everyone who will listen that he's a dad now... and that he's going to be the best.
The memorial service is open to any parent who
has suffered the loss of a
baby, and the infant's name can be inscribed
in a book on display
in the quiet
room of the
hospital.
I remember some lactation consultant, it was more than one and maybe there were some nurses, there are two came
in to my
room because I was
in the
hospital for about three days because it was cesarean to
have the
babies.
If the only choices were homebirth and a
hospital with no
rooming in and people trying to give my
baby a bottle all the time, homebirth
would be looking awfully attractive.
and
in a traditional
hospital environment
would call for an episiotomy (slicing the mother's vagina to anus to make more
room) and sucking the
baby out with a vacuum or a caesarian section.
Does the
hospital have a one -
room option
in which I can be
in labor, deliver my
baby, and recover all
in the same
room?
Many
hospitals will
have you bring the car seat to your
room to place
baby in the car seat when you are released from the
hospital.
When I
had my first
baby in the
hospital, I brought slippers to walk around the
hospital room in, which I subsequently
had to throw out.
It's so bizarre to me to read that a
hospital has to give a mother permission to
have her
baby in her
room with her.
Most women do not
have private
rooms; certainly
in big cities / big
hospitals, it is not uncommon to
have 12 or more women
in a
room, all with their
babies beside them.
But we try to educate and that
hospitals are following this as well that you can put the
baby in a crib — when it's a newborn, a bassinet
in your
room right next to your bed so the
baby has its own safe sleep environment.
I'm
in favor of
rooming in, but if you're at a
hospital that doesn't
have rooming -
in it's best not to advertise how much you're keeping your
baby in your
room.
Birthing Centers If you like the idea of a birthing
room but are not convinced you
would like to
have your
baby in a
hospital, then you could consider using a birthing center.
Ambient lighting: My
hospital has various light settings
in the
room that doubles as a labor and delivery
room and a place to stay once the
baby is born, and they generally keep the lighting either low or as natural as possible when I'm
in labor.
Not even a dimple,» (about your lack of cervical dilation) before disgustedly peeling off their gloves, throwing them away, and rushing out of the
room, you may be sorry that you decided to
have your
baby in the
hospital.
The
hospital had a policy that
babies roomed in with the mother and there was a nursery he could
have been admitted to.
Participating
hospitals agree to follow ten rules which include
rooming -
in (
having babies sleep next to mom instead of
in nurseries), a ban a pacifiers, and only using formula when medically necessary.
When we brought our first
baby home from the
hospital, our pediatrician advised us to
have her sleep
in our
room.
Of the many couples that
have their
baby before Ross and Rachel, Mazar plays one half of a fighting couple
in the conjoined
hospital room.
In a situation of that sort, what seems best, on reflection, is general awareness of risk and ways to reduce it (I rushed home and swallowed half a dozen
baby aspirin before my son drove me to the
hospital), but also confidence that institutions (the emergency
room triage process)
have the ability to recognize and respond with agility and skill.