All of our rooms are private, it's part of the baby friendly hospital certification process I think. You room in with your baby and are basically undressed from the top down for most of your stay, so it could definitely be awkward to share since they push BF so hard.
Post by polarbearfans on Jan 24, 2016 19:32:59 GMT -5
The hospital we delivered at was only private rooms. They encourage room sharing with the baby so I don't see how that would work well with having to share.
The hospital where I'm delivering only has private rooms. I think we're in the same room the entire time. We haven't had the tour yet, but SIL delivered there a few years ago and I'm pretty sure she stayed in the same room.
Post by jennistarr1 on Jan 24, 2016 21:08:21 GMT -5
so the only non private room time is c-section...believe me you won't notice. I doubt many other women will even be back there and I think the purpose of that is because it's recovery and they kind of keep you out in the open a bit more where staff can observe you
All rooms are private, but some of the delivery rooms have shared bathrooms. It's not an issue since I used it once. I'm pretty sure I was in the delivery room only for an hour, max, after DS arrived. They couldn't wait to get me out of there. The post-delivery rooms were tiny and claustrophobic, which really sucked. I wanted to be up and moving around but there wasn't any floor space to do so.
Mine was private L&D rooms, where you stay for an hour or two after delivering, and then mostly private rooms in mother/baby. My room had two hospital beds, but I never got a roommate (thank God). The curtain between would've solved the modesty issue with doing skin to skin a lot, but a) the noise of two mothers and two rooming-in newborns would mean no sleep for anyone, and b) I wouldn't have wanted to share one bathroom when bleeding as much as I was, especially with someone else who was also bleeding that much. It's messy. Plus if you have the window bed, you have to walk through the other bed's "space" to use the bathroom. Uncomfortable.
The labor/delivery and mother/baby rooms are all private. They do have a few larger mother/baby rooms that are extra but it's not that much and the extra space is really nice. The larger rooms actually have a sofa bed so your SO has a much more comfortable nights sleep.
Post by cactuscookie on Jan 24, 2016 23:58:14 GMT -5
Private labor and delivery room, but shared mother/baby rooms and babies all room in. The nurses on the hospital tour said it's really rare that there are enough new mothers there that you have to share though, so hopefully we won't have to deal with that.
Interesting. I had a private room for DD, but they have changed their policy now and I would have to pay to have one.
I was wondering how bad is it to share a room??? For DD, I delivered Monday night and left Wednesday afternoon. There is no guarantee that I would get out that quickly with this next one. Should I shell out the extra cash for a private room?
Interesting. I had a private room for DD, but they have changed their policy now and I would have to pay to have one.
I was wondering how bad is it to share a room??? For DD, I delivered Monday night and left Wednesday afternoon. There is no guarantee that I would get out that quickly with this next one. Should I shell out the extra cash for a private room?
We have private L&D rooms and private mother/baby rooms. There are two beds in all of the mother/baby rooms, but the second bed is for the support person. C-section recovery is also in a private L&D room.
I'm SO happy they changed this. My cousin had her kids at the same hospital ten years ago, and she had a roommate. It was awful
Post by patches31709 on Jan 25, 2016 8:12:05 GMT -5
Our hospital only has private rooms, and I can't imagine sharing. I was in and out of the hospital a few times with pre-term labor issues, and it was so nice to be alone in L&D those 8 nights. Our mother/baby rooms also all have a gorgeous river view of the Hudson. I can't imagine being postpartum and sharing a bathroom with a stranger.
All rooms are private at my hospital and they have very strict rules/regulations for who can be in your room alone with baby. You're given 1 extra wrist band so if you or that wrist band holder are not in the room, the nurses will take the baby to the nursery until you return.
The rooms are small and private but they do have some larger rooms for bigger families (2nd or 3rd time Moms so enough room for all the kids to visit).
The hospital where I delivered dd closed in Dec and a new hospital just opened. The new one has nearly all private rooms- I can't wait! Last time I shared a girl who had had a c section and was in pain all night, moaning. She really should have been given a private room.
We do not have nurseries here. The baby stays in the room with us.
All rooms are private for vaginal births. I'm not sure how recovery is for a c-section. Mother & baby rooms are also private. There is a nursery, but the hospital does encourage rooming in which is what we did with DD.
The l&d rooms and mother/baby rooms are all private. The CS recovery area is semi-private in that there were a couple beds partitioned by curtains. I spent maybe 30 mins in there though before being taken to a mother/baby room.
Vaginal deliveries are moved from the l&d room straight to a mother/baby room.
My good ol' urban hospital has shared rooms as a matter of course and like three private rooms that you pay $500/night for. There's no guarantee that you'll get the private room. With my DD, I delivered during an unusually slow period so I got a double room with no roommate, so no charge. I'm thinking the odds of getting just as lucky again are a bit slimmer, so I'm mentally preparing for shelling out for the private room.
Should I shell out the extra cash for a private room?
Yes.
Next time around, now that I realize how strongly I feel about not sharing, I would pay for the GUARANTEE of a private room, even though the likelihood of sharing is not actually that high at my hospital.
The postpartum period is just such a private, personal, and hormone-driven time. I want as much privacy as possible, and as much sleep as I can get before going home and being on my own with my NB.
I can't imagine sharing the bathroom pp. It just doesn't seem hygenic. My hospital had all private rooms and baby stays with you. There is a nursery but no one sends their baby there. They really push bfing and all that.
All private rooms, you deliver in the same room and stay the whole time. The rooms are large and have pull out couches and other chairs for visitors. This is the local small town hospital, when I had my first 2 it was in a bigger city at a University Hospital and not all rooms were private and the private rooms were small. I delivered in the same room but had 3-4 doctors and med students in there and would had hyperventilated if I wasn't in pain.