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I had a cesarean and that part went great, but I r...

I had a cesarean and that part went great, but I regret not reading all the 1&2 star reviews for babies before choosing this hospital. Unfortunately, the processes in place to care for a new Mom and her baby need lots of work here. First, apparently there are "old" nurses and "new" nurses and they have very different opinions on how to care for a newborn. You'll get told conflicting information from everybody here so be prepared for more stress with your pain & stress. Pacifiers are like unicorns apparently and it was hard to get one so bring your own if you have to deliver here. Additionally, they could care less if you sleep and don't watch that so you need to make sure you get your rest and ask for sleep protection when you need it otherwise you will be literally interrupted randomly by vital checks, meds, residents, photography, social workers, lactation, Doctors, food delivery, loud doors, telephone calls from finance, extremely loud plumbing, noise of the staff & babies from outside your room (closing your doors doesn't provide much for sound), and I probably forgot a few. Oh, & your newborn being upset by phototherapy in your room is your responsibility on top of all the sleep you won't get. If a nurse tells you they can't move your phototherapy upset newborn to the nursery because he's crying non-stop that's not true. Ask for a supervisor. If you think someone gave you bad information here they probably did. Also, they make you leave in a wheelchair (long wait) out of the main entrance so have fun being wheeled past hundreds of strangers that want to see your newborn on the way out. The main entrance is nowhere near the 3rd floor parking garage entrance that you go to deliver so demand instructions from discharge as they were very vague about this and we wasted a lot of time waiting on the wheelchair to come & not knowing we had to go to valet to escape this place.#baby#delivery#newborn

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