Good Sam. Recovery Rooms???

My DH came home tonight and said after talking with a co-worker that recovery rooms at Good Sam. are shared??? Maybe I am just nieve but are you kidding me? I have to share a room with someone who just gave birth as well while their family and friends come in? Are the babies put under lock down at night or with you at night???

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i am very curious about this as well ty

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When i delivered at good sam i had a private labor/delivery/recovery room... you stay in the same room for it all... however if you have a csection that is sceduled you will most likely not deliver on the l & d floor as the use the regular or for them and save the or in l & d for emergency c/s's.. so that maybe where the shared recovery room comes into play... also if the ldrs are full with vaginal births and you go in for a c/s they may move you to a monitoring room afterwards for recovery which is also a shared room.... but as long as they are not filed, the primary ldrs are private...


eta... the baby location i believe is a preference... i had ds with me but i was in a "contact" room due to the fact that i am an mrsa carrier so he was not allowed in the nursery... but i know my girl friend had her dd with her 24/7

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I had a private L & D and recovery room and I loved it.... It felt like we were in a hotel. I'm not sure if it was b/c it wasn't a C section, but the private rooms helped for a great experience!

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your question is a little confusing because your talking about recovery and then having the baby in with youmaybe you can clarify what your concerns are?...

I delivered at good sam just about 4 months ago. I had an emergency c-section. when i got to the hospital they put me in a labor/delivery/recovery room. These are Private. you are usually only in there for labor delivery and then for a short period after birth. Then you are moved to another floor for post partum which is where the nursery is. These rooms are NOT private. unless you get lucky there is one private room which is very small,or you get lucky with no roommate which i did a few nights. You cannot have the baby room in with you at night. They will bring the baby in for feedings but as far as the baby sleeping in the room with you thats not allowed. We werea llowed to pick the baby up at 9am and keep her till11pm. they did have to take her back for shift change once a day. They babies have baby lojack on their umbilical cords.

i hope i answered your questions if i didnt and you have more please ask!

ETA: my section was done on the L&D floor because it was an emergency, but i had a private recovery room after the delivery. If it was scheduled the section would have been done in the regular OR and im pretty sure the recovery room isnot private here

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I had a scheduled c-section, I delivered on the l & d floor and had a private recovery room.

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I delivered by scheduled c/s at Good Sam on October 12. I was fortunate enough to have a private room, which is rare. Other hospital rooms are shared with another person. It depends how busy they are. There were 11 babies when I got there and 45 when I left. I don't think anyone had a roommate when I arrived, and by the time I left there were moms on other floors because they ran out of space.

It was my choice about whether to keep the baby in the room with me at night. I kept her one night and let them keep her the other nights. I know others had their babies with them all night, as I heard cries at 3am.

The baby lojack system was switched to ankle bracelets while I was there. (Think Martha Stewart under house arrest kind of tag.)

HTH.

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i was wondering all this too...thanks for the input!!!!

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im surprised so many of you were allowed to ahve the baby 24hours. I was not given the option they actually came looking for her once 11pm came around and was kind of glad they didnt let me since i got some really fantastic sleep those 4 nights i was so greatful it really helpped for the frist week home!

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The recovery rooms are for the most part shared but I loved GOOD SAM!!!! I wish I was delivering there again.

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I spoke with L&D at Good Sam.. They said that the only way you have to share a room with anyone is if you have a scheduled c-section. They said each scenario is different based on c-sections. She said if it is a natural birth you are in the same room alone through the entire process.

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I can't speak from experience, as this is my first baby, but, my mom is the head of the recovery room at Good Sam, so I do know a bit about that. If you have a scheduled c-section, as pp has mentioned, you may be in the OR of the hospital - not the ldr one. Then, there is a good chance that you will be recovered in the main recovery room (don't think it's definite though.) The main recovery room does not have separate rooms - it is one big open room with many beds, so in that sense, yes, you would be sharing. But, it's not like many people are able to visit you in the recovery room anyway. You won't be there for long.

As for myself, if I end up with a scheduled c-sect, I'm pretty sure I know which recovery room I'll be in But that's completely okay with me, because the nurses in there really are fantastic and completely know what they are doing.

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I had a vaginal delivery at Good Sam 10 weeks ago. When I first got there I was sharing a room because there were sooo many people delivering that night. I was in the shared room for several hours and then finally got moved to a private labor/delivery room. I was in there with just me and DH and whoever visited throughout the day. Once DD was born, I should have been moved to the postpartum/maternity floor to a shared room within an hour or so, but there was, once again, no room for me. All of my visitors had to visit me in the labor/delivery room (which they never bothered to clean up- all DH's firemen friends got to see the bloody aftermath of having a baby. Oh- and his brother almost passed out when he saw the mess.)
About three hours later they brought me back into the triage room I started the day in. It WAS a shared room, which sucked because my roomates husband was there until like 2 in the morning bringing her burger king and chatting away. It was impossible to get sleep. First thing the next morning her 3 young kids came and were quite loud and annoying. I was able to keep the baby with me but kept begging them to take her back because I was deperate for sleep. The nurse would take her and then hand her back a minute later when she'd cry saying she had separation anxiety . The next day I was finally brought to the maternity floor at about 3pm and once again had a shared room, but my roomate was very nice, quiet and respectful. She shared her pads with me and her hubby asked constantly if I wanted anything from the cafe or whatever.

Anyway- the moral of the story is that the maternity rooms are shared, where you deliver is private and the baby can stay with you all night if you choose.