Rachel Myr wrote:
>
> 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??
>

> 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?
>

I delivered all three of my children in a suburban Philadelphia hospital
which shall remain nameless -- the first with an OB, the second and
third with a midwife. As per hospital policy, each of my precious
newborns rode alone in a little plastic box on wheels to the nursery to
be admitted after we'd had about an hour together in the labor and
delivery room. (With number three it was a busy day and they needed the
room for someone else so the nurse actually tried to get me to unlatch
the baby so she could transport him -- I had more than a few choice
words for her!) A few minutes later I rode in a wheelchair to my
postpartum room. My baby then joined me after an hour or two. Don't even
get me started on this...my blood still boils every time I think of it.
If I find myself delivering there again perhaps I'll just refuse to have
the baby admitted -- nothing else we tried worked as far as getting some
leeway on this policy.

Karen Meade
LLL Leader, Suburban Philadelphia, PA, USA

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