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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“It Doesn’t Matter If Your Room Has A Tub…”
“It doesn’t matter if your room has a tub. You’ll be hooked up to the fetal monitor and can’t leave the bed anyway.” – L&D Nurse to mother who inquired if her labor room had a tub.
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So in the olden days they tied “twilight sleep” moms to their beds with leather and wool restraints.
Now they do it with monitors and IVs and a whole load of mother’s guilt (if you’re not on the monitor your baby will DIE!).
What’s the difference, really?
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Rebecca Reply:
December 25th, 2011 at 6:07 am (Quote)
Today, we know what they’re doing to us and hopefully learn from the experience.
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Sheva Reply:
December 25th, 2011 at 6:46 am (Quote)
I disagree – I don’t believe that most women know what they’re doing to them.
Most women don’t know that the monitors and IV are not necessary, and are simply high-tech restraints meant to keep mom confined to bed, and that docs use guilt to convince moms that these restraints are necessary. If they did know, it wouldn’t be as common as it is.
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Rebecca Reply:
December 25th, 2011 at 7:21 am (Quote)
I know they might not understand why things are happening, or what the consequences of those things are, but they do know when a VE happens, and that they got an IV (though maybe not everything that was in it) and that they are on fetal monitors- and that they actually gave birth to the baby. . . the twilight sleep mamas couldn’t say the same.
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I had the fetal monitoring done hourly due to some small concerns but I was able to go all over the place….including the tub! And I birthed there too! So take that L&D nurse! (Lucky for me I had fantastic German midwives instead of that nurse lol)
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Bull. Even if for some reason mom did require continuous monitoring (I consented to it for my VBACs), there are waterproof telemetry monitors. Get some (I know this isn’t in the nurse’s power, but in my perfect world every hospital would have them). I had continuous monitoring for both VBACs, and I labored in the water for both of them.
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Laura Reply:
December 26th, 2011 at 8:17 am (Quote)
This! The hospital I birthed in does this. (Not that I took advantage. I wasn’t feeling anything when I arrived so I napped, because it was night. When I fully woke up I was in transition, and things went so fast I never even wanted the tub – baby arrived left than an hour after. But I knew it was an option and they’d have been happy to let me have it, had things gone differently. Of course, this place also asked me to wear the monitor when I was lying down, but feel free to unhook it if I wanted to move around; the nurse said if I was off it and she needed to know how I was doing, it was no problem to come in and check with me, and I wasn’t to worry about that.)
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Ash had this to say,
Dec 27, 2011 @ 7:53 am (Quote)
This wasn’t mine but very well could be local. One of our local hospitals has become notorious in the NC community for this bait and switch. They advertise that they have these wonderful tubs but no one any of us knows has yet to be able to use one.
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a nurse at the hospital that I gave birth in for my first said that the tubs that they had would be better if they were filled with dirt… some how they were deemed not safe and thus could not be used… the kicker was that the hospital was brand new… opened less than a year before…..
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So it’s just there a part of the decor, like the wallpaper and hardwood floors?
Hey nurse, they’ve got these cool inventions, they’re called dopplers. For higher risk moms that really do need continuous monitoring, there are telemetry units. Neither of which replace you actually checking on her.
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