Chris Mulford posted:
Kay Hoover has received a request from a hospital in Philadelphia wanting to
know if there are any hospitals that transport mother and baby together from
L & D to postpartum.

I've written to Kay, but the query makes me wonder: how ELSE would you
transport them??

Standard Norwegian scenario:
Mother and baby stay together in the labor/delivery room (same room) for 2
hours post partum.  The midwife is in and out, checking on them but giving
them time alone, together with whoever else has been there, usually father
and not infrequently mother's mother.  Then they are moved, together, as in
in the same bed, to post partum.  Exceptions: mother in need of intensive
care, baby in need of intensive care, or CS, in which mother stays in
operating suite while father and baby go to labor ward until mother is in
recovery/post op.  Then they go to her.  Sometimes they stay together there
until transfer to post partum.  More often, father and baby go to post
partum first, and mother comes after a few hours.

This is standard practice everywhere in Norway.  I think I can say with 100%
certainty that there are no maternity institutions in the country who
separate mothers and babies more than I've described here.

BTW, this is almost exactly the procedure I experienced when I gave birth at
a hospital in Seattle in 1981.  Have things changed everywhere?  Do I live
on another planet?

Rachel Myr
worried in Kristiansand, Norway

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