Did your maternity ward utilize a nursery?

[princesspumpkin]

With more and more hospitals becoming "baby friendly", I was wondering how many hospitals around the country (and world) do not utilize a nursery at all for new moms to rest occasionally.

Yes rooming in is encouraged at many hospitals, but how many actually make it mandatory, because there is no nursery for normal newborns?



http://www.scarymommy.com/baby-friendly-maternity-wards-abandoning-nurseries/

 

[mommysaurus]

Hospital I worked in and gave birth in had one. I didn't use it much but it was there.

 

[mjkacmom]

Mine did, thank goodness! I used to fantasize about dropping my babies off and getting a good nights sleep a few weeks after birth. With my twins, I fed them at 10 pm, and requested them to stay in the nursery until morning (knowing this my last chance of getting any sleep, especially having a toddler, preschooler, and first grader at home.

Sleep deprivation stinks!

 

[Mizzoufan]

Yes, thankfully

 

[mombrontrent]

I live in Ontario Canada and the hospital that I had my three kids in did not have one. The baby stayed in the room with you the entire time. My oldest is 16 so it's been like that for awhile now.

 

[frndshpcptn]

Yes, but they push hard for rooming in so there can be a sense of guilt is you use the nursery option. By the second night I was so tired the nurse offered to take her for her newborn tests and told me it would take 2-3 hours (which it really should have only taken an hour but she saw how exhausted I was and "pretended". I was so happy I could sleep for a bit without feeling bad that I sent her out of the room. I left that nurse a lovely compliment note to give her boss and extra goodies.

 

[pocomom]

There was a nursery option for all 3 of mine, in 3 separate hospitals. I was happy to not feel the need to use it, but would have been horrified if it wasn't at least available. Giving birth can be quite the ordeal, moms should have the option!

 

[Teresa Pitman]

My eighth grandchild was just born in our local hospital (five out of the eight were born at home, so this is more the exception!) and there is no nursery there for healthy, full-term babies. This new baby was born prematurely, so he was in their special care nursery for two weeks until he was ready to come home. (His name, by the way, is Walter - yes, after Walt Disney - his parents met while working at the Canada pavilion in Epcot!).

 

[scrapquitler]

In the hospitals where my children were born (in 1996 and 2003), they had a nursery, but discouraged having the babies stay in it. The only time my kids were there were for a short time period when they were bathed and given their first round of vaccinations, and tests with eye drops (I don't remember the specifics) but it was maybe an hour or two at most. My son also was there for a couple of hours before/during/after his circumcision.

 

[Gracie09]

My hospital had it. Dd was in the nicu so I didn't have a rooming option but I would have sent her to the nursery.

 

[HM]

My deliveries were difficult. I used the nursery extensively in order to get time to sleep and recover, with my first in particular.

 

[hereyago]

When I gave birth to my dd 17 years ago, heck yes I had to utilize the nursery.
I had a very unplanned c section and wasnt allowed to be alone with her in the room.

Last year, dd had her baby girl, it was encouraged at the tour about rooming in. All great and all that, butdd had Iissues from the epidural, when I left a couple times each day, baby would go in nursery for a little bit.

 

[knkmom]

With my first (1987) they kept her in the nursery and only brought her to me for feedings. When I had my son in 1993 (same hospital) he stayed with me the entire time we were there, no nursery.

 

[RangerPooh]

I had four babies born at three different hospitals between 2005-2011 and they didn't use a nursery. Yes the urges would take them for a short period of time, but the nursery was for babies born who needed extra care.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Well, I had my kids a number of years ago (late 80s-early 90s). There was a nursery, but I didn't use it until kid #3. Had a long, hard labor & delivery with that one, and the nurses (after we got to our "family room") offered to take him for the rest of the night (got to the room about 2 am), so I could get some sleep.

 

[blana]

Rooming in was strongly encouraged, but there was a nursery if you wanted to use it in both hospitals I gave birth in. I never used it (had minor panic attacks every time they took the babies out anyway),, and for 2 of my kids the nurses mentioned the next morning that I was the only mom who hadn't asked for them to be taken at some point during the night. Dd1 they didn't tell me that.

 

[msjprincess]

When I had my kids 10-15 years ago babies had to go to the nursery. They would bring them to your room for feedings if you chose but then they went back to the nursery.

 

[BadgerGirl84]

I could write a very long post on my opinion of "baby friendly" hospitals but I'll try to keep it brief.

I delivered my first daughter in 2013 in a "baby friendly" hospital. I found it to be "mother unfriendly" and quite frankly dangerous to my baby.

I was "gung ho" about breastfeeding during my first pregnancy. I was dead set on it and was happy to be delivering at "baby friendly" hospital to help support me in my efforts. I ended up being awake for about 36 hours once I went through labor and the first day of my daughter's life, come bedtime. My husband had gone home as we had pets at home with no one to watch them, so I was alone with the baby all night. The nurses did NOT want to watch the baby at all and were rude to me when I was literally begging them to take her for a couple hours so I could get a little sleep. Also, they wanted me holding her and nursing her pretty much all the time, while I was drowsy and drifting off---umm...not safe! Also, my daughter hit 12% weight loss from birth weight very quickly during our short hospital stay (and her weight was not artificially boosted by IV fluids during labor, as I didn't have any). Their response was the "nurse, nurse, nurse" and to pump too, on top of that to boost my supply. So I got to add in pumping and washing pump parts into my hospital routine on top of everything else while being utterly exhausted. After the hospitalization, I ultimately had to start supplementing formula for baby to get enough calories, and it would have made sense for them to suggest that there, rather then to encourage me to carry on with what was not working.

With my second, I purposely picked a hospital that was NOT baby friendly and had a nursery. My postpartum stay was awesome! Baby was in the room with me most of the time, as I wanted, but I could send baby to nursery when I needed a nap or wanted to take a shower. They respected my preferences to bring baby to me when she was hungry and not to give her a pacifier. The nurses and lactation consultant were excellent at supporting breastfeeding and were very encouraging. They supported me supplementing with formula as well. I went home rested and re-charged, not exhausted.

 

[ndelaware]

The hospital my daughters were born at had a small nursery type room between two regular rooms. That way the baby was close by but the nurses could put the babies there and care for them without bothering the mother. it was especially helpful for women such as my wife who spent 30 some hours in labor and delivered 37 pounds of babies, twins who went almost full term.

 

[disney4us2002]

The hospital my daughters were born at had a small nursery type room between two regular rooms. That way the baby was close by but the nurses could put the babies there and care for them without bothering the mother. it was especially helpful for women such as my wife who spent 30 some hours in labor and delivered 37 pounds of babies, twins who went almost full term.

Huh? That has to be a typo, right? I had huge babies but they were only 10 lbs each.