Not exact matches
His
mom would
get sick a lot, so he would have
to take her
to the
hospital on the back of the bike.
Mom is scheduled
to get out of the
hospital on November 10th — fingers crossed — and has chosen
to receive traditional chemotherapy treatment.
We need
to get the word out about breastfeeding in the earliest days (when many
moms are undersupported and may still be in a
hospital).
I was stuck in the
hospital five days after my third, and was bored
to tears, so the nurses would bring in new
moms to watch me latch, ask questions, and
get tips.
While there is usually more than enough time
to get to the
hospital, a little bit of foresight can avoid making an exciting event into an overly stressful one, especially for a
mom in labor.
I bet the
hospital never intended
to get a court order, but that they just expect
moms to capitulate at that point.
And for a loss
mom who is carrying her rainbow baby, the only difference between this time and last time might just be that she
gets to leave the
hospital with her baby.
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.
Hospital or Nursing Home can be one of the most considerable sources
to get assistance in terms with breastfeeding tips for new
moms.
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.
The same goes in certain
hospitals right now there's a real movement you know for the older late pre-term instance or the nursery full term instance who's
mom because of medication during a C - section or just a really difficult time emberwing that the
mom be given some relief by giving the child donor milk while she continues
to get her milk supply out.
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?
Not
getting to the
hospital in time is a scary thought that plays out through many expectant
mom's heads — especially when she tries
to picture how the actual «mad dash»
to the
hospital will go.
Many women, particularly first - time
moms,
get into false alarms and trips
to the
hospital.
It doesn't matter if
mom was GBS positive, if her water was broken or not, what the baby's heartrate was, how far they were from the
hospital or how fast they drove
to get there.
It's not uncommon for those in your position
to worry about many of the same things as
moms -
to - be, like
getting to the
hospital or birthing center on time, or feeling nervous about witnessing the birth.
3 days is not long enough
to recover from a cesarean, learn breastfeeding, adjust
to being a
mom, catch up on some sleep etc... when you have perfectly healthy
moms who may need
to labor for 2 days, competing for bed space, nursing and
hospital resources, right along with the
moms who have had surgery, someone is NOT
getting the care and support that they really need.
If an expectant
mom doesn't recognize the symptoms of a UTI (or if she doesn't have any symptoms), however, she won't know
to seek treatment — and the condition can
get serious, says Dana Gossett, M.D., an ob - gyn at Northwestern Memorial
Hospital in Chicago.
Yes the home group will contain some higher risk
moms (some VBAC, some breech, some GDM) but it won't contain the full spectrum of high risk that the
hospital gets: Women with clotting disorders on heparin, maternal heart disease,
moms addicted
to crack,
moms with HIV, 12 and 13 year olds, women who walk in off the streets in labor with no prenatal care, women with sickle cell and cystic fibrosis and type 1 diabetes, babies with severe anomalies.
And then my brother... my
mom had this great milk supply with him a couple of years later and her doctor, pediatrician said that she was over-feeding him and she had
to limit the amount he was
getting and then he ended up being «failure
to thrive» and put in the
hospital.
Like other OG
moms, I wasn't that worried about
getting to the
hospital on time.
Although most new
moms want
to breast - feed and are aware of the health advantages, they are not likely
to continue if they do not
get support from the
hospital staff, said Dr. Paula White, a Loyola OB - GYN.
It had happened in the
hospital too so we had the suction handy
to get it out, but after that we spent about two weeks with my
Mom and Dad rotating night shifts
to keep someone awake with him until we were sure he was out of danger.
Since Motrin is recommended (by brand - name) by
hospitals for post-natal pain, the company has an interest in
getting new
moms to keep buying it after those first few weeks.
We had just
gotten out of the car
to go
to dinner, but packed everyone back in and dropped our older girls back at the house with my
mom, grabbed our bags and headed
to the
hospital.
My son was tongue tied at birth
to it made the latch terrible I struggled for a while take him
to the family doctor they will clip the tie as the
hospital wouldn't do it for me either the younger you have it corrected the better and then
mom can work on latching properly and it should increase the milk supply it is difficult breastfeeding with a low supply and bottle feeding the baby
gets used
to being able
to get more milk quicker from a bottle and then will fuss and not want the breast just takes some time and when ever possible just offer the breast he will eventually take it when a bottle is not offered it also helps
to squeeze a little milk out so he can smell and taste it it will encourage him
to latch on and eat also some woman can pump and some can't I have a problem pumping I can maybe
get an once from each breast and that is if I'm lucky
The
hospital bag is packed by the door, the birth plan is printed, the route
to the
hospital is planned out, and
Mom -
to - be has timed how long it will take
to get there.
Opinions on when
to begin tummy time will differ from
mom to mom, some will begin as soon as baby
gets home from the
hospital, whereas others prefer
to wait until baby is about a couple of months old before beginning.
what a great post, as a
mom to a girl who is now 11 years old, and
got cancer when she was 8 months and i had started
to go down with her breasfeeding, but then she had too start kemotherapy, and all she would take was the breast, so we went on, but now thinking back, i relly had
to struggle whith the
hospital personal because the thougth she was
getting too old for it, (she had kemo for 2 years) but we went on several years, and i remember that i almost hide it, only the closed family new, thats sad too think about, so this is very refreshing
to read.
I
get that she was not exclusively breastfed, she had outside food in her developing digestive track at only 3 days old, but
to count her as in the same statistics on how breastfeeding does or does not affect humans babies as the baby who only breastfed for the 3 days when
mom was in the
hospital and then switched
to formal is not sound science.
So really just
getting excited over the four drops that they're able
to collect with whatever — the
hospital where I used
to work, we had a great NICU Nurse who used
to celebrate
moms who bring up their little half a CC syringe of colostrums so that they understood how important that was; so that they would continue
to work on increasing that.
Lots of
moms also
get really itchy — but both nausea and itchiness can be taken care of with medication, which you'll have plenty of access
to in the
hospital.
I've worked in spaces were
moms have asked me
to bring out oils particularly in
hospital and it's really kind of fun when the providers walk through the door, they walk - in and they've been in the
hospital environment and it just smells
hospital and then they walk - in into your room and sudden, «oh, hey that smells really good» you know when you
get the orange oil because
moms have some fatigue and probably at that point of mommas fatigue, most in the rooms are fatigued so you
get out any other citrus oils kind of enliven the room and the providers walk - in and they kind of, «whoa, that smells really good».
And so over the course of the next few days you will
get to hear all about these great items, but today you will learn about a product that has helped millions of
moms breast feed their babies and that is the # 1 choice of lactation consultants plus is being used in hundreds of newborn intensive care units and birthing
hospitals.
Shelly Lopez Gray, a labor and delivery nurse and international board - certified lactation consultant in Texas who runs the website Adventures of a Labor Nurse, says that before the
hospitals she worked at started trying
to get «baby - friendly» certification, they discouraged new
moms from breast - feeding.
This essential guide (that we hope you'll never need)
to getting through your kid's stay in the
hospital comes straight from a
mom whose daughter lived in the
hospital for 123 days.
Moms dead set on having a natural birth end up with C - sections, and moms who swear by the epidurals don't make it to the hospital in time to get
Moms dead set on having a natural birth end up with C - sections, and
moms who swear by the epidurals don't make it to the hospital in time to get
moms who swear by the epidurals don't make it
to the
hospital in time
to get one.
Many
hospitals still prefer
to play it safe and require continuous monitoring, especially if the
mom to be has an epidural or any high - risk conditions or if she
gets her labor induced.
Midwives are trained in listening
to the woman and taking her health as well as infants» health into consideration and
getting mom and babe
to hospital if emergency arises which she is unable
to perform miracles for in a home setting.
Sure, labor pains may be eased by some of the positions the
mom -
to — be can
get into on the ball, and a water birth may make for a more peaceful entrance for baby, but in the mind of the doctors and
hospitals, the risks far out way the benefits of either one.
First time
moms usually have plenty of time
to get to the
hospital, as labour can take hours.
I meet a lot of
moms who didn't breastfeeding because they had some trouble after leaving the
hospital and didn't know where
to get help.
Whether you want an epidural,
hospital birth, water birth, or natural,
get all the facts, do your research, know your options, and talk
to your doctor and other
moms.
So seeing somebody in
hospital, but also, once you
get home, having trouble at home, a lot of
moms are discharged even before their milk comes in, and then the milk comes in sometimes, if there are issues with engorgement or whatever the issue may be, but a lot of
moms have a tendency
to wait and see, there is this sort of mentality of, «breastfeeding is natural and I should be able
to do this, I shouldn't need help», but it really is a learned skill and it's better
to get help sooner rather than later because the sooner breastfeeding problems are addressed, the better chance we have of being able
to resolve them.
We were talking about
hospitals, cause she delivered in a
hospital, and she was talking about, you know, you have all this now with the baby - friendly
hospitals, which is a great initiative, but they are doing more and more
to make it more and more difficult, if you will, for
moms who really are choosing the formula route
to get formula.
So groups in the
hospital can be really helpful but also like in your pediatrician's office, a lot of times they have their bulletin board up there, I mean I used
to meet other
moms just sitting in the waiting room because you go all the time and you tend
to see... you
get all of similar rotation without the
moms.
It's going
to go downhill fast, it's going
to go within 24 hrs it could climb very high and then the baby may have
to go back in the
hospital and that's really - really tough for new
moms to have a baby, go home from the
hospital and then be told you
got to go back
to the
hospital.
A big tenant of my practice is
to strongly encourage every
mom to feed in a stable, non-rocking (those put the baby in snooze mode at first) chair a few times BEFORE being discharged from the
hospital and frequently AFTER they
get home.
After making the rush
to the
hospital or birthing center, there's nothing like a
mom getting an induction early, just
to have
to hurry up and wait.
Some
moms end up needing c - sections and
hospitals make more money doing c - sections than assisting in a vaginal birth, but it would be unethical for them
to advertise saying «choose your baby's birthdate» or «don't let your nethers
get all stretched out».