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Re: Emporia ---> Process errors From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Tue Dec 7 21:23:03 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: Emporia ---> Process errors" Previous message: GIN11153@aol.com: "Re: Emporia ---> Process errors" In reply to: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: Emporia ---> Process errors" Next in thread: ainsron: "Re: Emporia ---> Process errors" Um, let's see. Bathroom three steps from the bed, with someone to help you get up and get there. Nice nursery nurses who would come in when you just finished feeding the ten-lb. baby and he is still screaming and they offer to take him to the nursery to entertain him so you can catch some much-needed zzzzz's (after being up all night in labor). People who will get you a glass of juice when you just push a button. Meals prepared for you and set right in front of you (and the food was actually pretty decent). Nice ladies who bring you a fresh gown and towels and put clean sheets on your bed while you take a shower. Baby in a bassinette that rolls right in next to your bed with diapers and wipes and everything on a shelf right underneath baby. And most of all, NO ONE asking you to do anything for THEM. Don't forget, most women drop a coupla grams of Hgb in the process of giving birth. I felt MUCH more tired and wiped out when I got home than I did in the hospital. I actually stayed three days after my first delivery (21 years ago, 10-lb. baby, big epis, uterine inversion, postpartum transfusion), two days with my second (only because on the day after the birth, my bed was on a truck, in transit to our new house, and my husband and a bunch of his buddies were in the process of moving all our stuff), and just overnight after the third, but I can certainly understand a woman needing to stay longer, ESPECIALLY after a c-sec. -- Anna Meenan, MD At Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote: > >But what did you get in the hospital that you couldn't get at home? A better >bed? Less ambient noise? Drugs at your bedside rather than having to wait >for the nurse to bring them? Better food? > >-- >Richard Chudacoff, MD > >-----Original Message----- >From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Anna >Meenan, MD >Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:38 PM >To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L >Subject: Re: Emporia ---> Process errors > >Sorry guys, I'm with Gail on this one. I have not had a c-sec but have >had pelvic surgery with abdominal incision. Can't imagine leaving the >hospital in less than 2 days. Actually, when I had the surgery (at the >much younger and presumably more resiliant age of 21), I stayed in the >hospital for almost a WEEK, and I did not have a newborn to tend to when >I got home. More power to the women who actually WANT to leave quickly >after a c-sec, but I'm not gonna push 'em out. > > Anna Meenan, MD > >At Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Process errors">GIN11153@aol.com wrote: >> >>Wow, 30 hours after a c/section? I had 4 c/sections and am glad Blue Cross >>paid for 4 days as I would not have left in less than 4 days. Sorry to the >men >>on the list, but you have no idea what an incision in that area feels >like!! >>Plus, that goodness someone invented Harris flushes! >> >>Gail Neuman RNC CPHW SNP LNC >>listowner of Process errors"> Process errors">LegalNurseConsulting@yahoogroups.com >>certified high risk OB/legal nurse consultant >>Notary Public/Certified Loan Signing Agent >>Tustin, CA > Next message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: Emporia ---> Process errors" Previous message: GIN11153@aol.com: "Re: Emporia ---> Process errors" In reply to: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: Emporia ---> Process errors" Next in thread: ainsron: "Re: Emporia ---> Process errors"

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