Re: 1.5 hour trip to hospital - likely to be a problem?
From: Anna (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:25:03 -0500 (CDT)
Hi Jennifer,
Thanks for your reply, I was a bit stressed out over this but now I feel
better! I live up northeast and there's no telling what the roads will
be like when I'm due (in February). My mom was born in a taxi cab and I
was worried I would be following some strange family tradition! :)
At Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Jennifer wrote:
>
>At Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Anna wrote:
>>
>>I hope this is a question that can be answered by anyone who has had a
>>baby. I'm 12 weeks pregnant with my first. I live in one state but
>>work an hour and a half away in a different state. My insurance does
>>not provide coverage in the state I live in, only the one I work in. So
>>when the time comes (if everything goes well up till then!) for me to
>>give birth, I'd have to travel for 1.5 hrs to get to the hospital, if
>>I'm at home and not at work. Should I be worried about this? At least
>>my husband would be doing the driving... ;)
>
>Hi Anna
>I live about an hour from the hospital where I had my first baby and it
>wasn't a problem since I didn't start really laboring until I got to the
>hospital (my water had broke and I was just having mild crampy
>contractions). We had plenty of time to get there and get
>situated....they ended up giving me pitocin to speed things up since it
>was going quite slow (not unusual for first pregnancies, I guess).
>Chances are you'll have lots of time to get there....if you're feeling
>overwhelmed with the possibility of NOT getting there on time (or
>comfortably) my friend asked her doctor to induce her so that she could
>plan things better (We live in Maine and she was due in winter...very
>slow driving and traveling at times).
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