Help - NSUH hospital stay post delivery

My first was a nightmare. Not the delivery, but the roommate thing was seriously horrible.  I know you can get a private room for like $600 a night, is there anyway to fanagle a room for free?

Serioulsy, I had a roommate who got mad b/c my DD was crying at 3am while I was trying to BF. She made it clear she was P I S S E D! I ended up sending the baby back to the nursery instead of continuing to try to BF.
My OB, who I love is affiliated with NSUH and I'm not sure there's a way to have the baby elsewhere unless I change doctors. I'm high risk so he's the only one I trust. What's the best course of action? I had a c/s the last time so it's likely I'll need it again - I told DH if it's as bad as last time we'll have to sign all the paperwork and have me released 3 days early. I cannot imagine doing that again, but I cannot imagine recovering from a c/s at home with no help.

Re: Help - NSUH hospital stay post delivery

I can totally sympathize with you. I delievered 7 weeks ago and I had a very bad expereince with the roomate situation as well. When I came out of recovery I was put into a shared private room....it was so clean and the bathroom was spotless. The other girl was so quiet I was so happy. Then we both got moved because someone was getting the room. The first night I had a nice young girl and we both ended up talking a lot the first night. She left the next morning and they brought in a girl who cried and moaned the first two nights. Her family reeked of curry to the point where I was gagging as was my family. She would scream on the phone crying at night to someone tha my husband who stayed over screamed at her to shut up. Her older child was there til 1130 one night screaming crying that the nurses came in there to yell at them to take her home that she was distrubing the entire floor. And thebathroom situation, which was my worst fear could not have been any worse! She washed herself in the bathroom sink....she left blood on the toilet...she left her sanitary napkins OPEN for me to have the pleasure of seeing whenever I would go throw any garbage out into the pail. I t was so bad the last night I worked myself up into such anxiety I got myself sick and they had to give me a xanax to relax. How can you recover from surgery under those types of conditions?
Maybe if I were in your situation I would speak to my doctor maybe he would have some type of pull in getting you into a private room? Or maybe complain about your previous ecperience to the staff so they will get you in one? I would pay the money if I had to do this again....I think it is very well worth it. I wish you a better stay than I had....good luck!

Re: Help - NSUH hospital stay post delivery

Re: Help - NSUH hospital stay post delivery

i am sorry you had a bad experience too. its a shame too because at one pont for such a good hospital some things sometimes fall through the cracks.

oh and i had a really great lactation nurse come in to me...i wish i could remember her name, older woman short brown hair. i was so engorged and she stayed and showed the the proper way to help the engorgement. i lost my humanity while she was squeezing my breasts but he really helped me maybe you will get her this time around

Re: Help - NSUH hospital stay post delivery

I can totally sympathize with both of you. I delivered at St. Catherine's and over there, they put 3 (that's right, 3) people in a room!!!! It borders on barbaric. I was the only one in the room who had a section, so the other 2 were feeling good and having the room full of visitors. With visitors for 3 people the room was cramped and HOT!! One of the girls snored so bad that I would have to wait until they brought her crying baby in to BF to be able to fall asleep -- that was easier to sleep through. And the bathroom experience, mine was the same. These 2 pigs left their blood pads just thrown into the garbage, all open and everything. There were drops of blood on the toilet and the floor and I would be the one to try to clean it up. And remind you, I was the one who had been cut open and could barely stand up, let alone bend over and clean the toilet and floor. And then they got annoyed because I left some breast pumping equipment drying (after I washed it in the sink) on the counter in there.

This time, I am going to Stonybrook where they have all private rooms with private bathrooms. I am making the sacrifice of having my doctor's associate deliver this baby. I am not that crazy about him, but the way I figure, he is just doing a surgery, not having to coax me through labor and delivery. My doc said that he will come see me, but that he does not do the surgeries at Stonybrook.