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Post by trtlcrzy on Mar 14, 2020 9:50:57 GMT -6
danib I’m glad your contractions stopped.
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Post by trtlcrzy on Mar 14, 2020 9:53:14 GMT -6
I’m at work this weekend and it’s a ghost town. I work in admissions at a hospital and we are on lockdown. Each patient can only have 1 visitor (with minor exceptions) and I have to screen every person that walks through the door. I haven’t had too many issues yet. School was cancelled here for next week but I stay at home during the day so it’s not a problem. I feel bad for everyone who is trying to figure out logistics.
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Post by wasabi on Mar 14, 2020 11:15:45 GMT -6
Omg danib I’m so happy they stopped and you’re ok now. I hope your appointment on Monday goes well.
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Post by wasabi on Mar 14, 2020 11:18:40 GMT -6
My kid is off for the next week, and hopefully that’s it. It’s not a problem thankfully since me and SO’s work schedules don’t overlap, but I just don’t want her to have to make up too much time going into the summer break.
My manager let me know I’m able to take 2 weeks off with pay due to being pregnant during this time. I feel weird taking it but I suppose I should, so I’ll talk to her about that on Monday. I wish I could save it for maternity leave, lol.
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Post by txaggie08 on Mar 14, 2020 19:39:13 GMT -6
danib I'm glad your contractions stopped. I'm sure that was scary! It's too soon baby!
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Post by danib on Mar 15, 2020 19:07:50 GMT -6
My hospital just updated their Covid policy. Only 1 support person allowed in delivery rooms. I am stressing out. My mom was there for both my boys. She has been there for every major medical event I've been through. I cannot imagine doing this without her. *I know there are much more serious consequences to what is happening, but this is big for me at this moment*
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Post by aries on Mar 15, 2020 21:17:57 GMT -6
My hospital just updated their Covid policy. Only 1 support person allowed in delivery rooms. I am stressing out. My mom was there for both my boys. She has been there for every major medical event I've been through. I cannot imagine doing this without her. *I know there are much more serious consequences to what is happening, but this is big for me at this moment* Oh danib that sucks so much, I’m sorry. I know that what’s going on in the world is a big deal and tragic but this new change in the hospital is directly affecting you. I understand how upsetting it is and think it’s more than okay to be feeling this way😢 what would be an option for you? Could she FaceTime? Would that even be allowed? Would they let your H and your mom swap out (probably not since the risk would still be there with two people being present even at differing times.) Especially if she has always been your support, that’s hard to have to accept she won’t be allowed. I’m glad your contractions stopped!
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Post by willow on Mar 15, 2020 21:31:14 GMT -6
Given that my delivery will be happening in the next 30 days max, I am mentally preparing myself for the possibility that no one may be allowed to visit us at the hospital. It sucks, but it is what it is. As long as my H can be there, which I imagine the partner will be allowed no matter what, I will be fine.
But I also kind of hate the idea of people visiting me a lot at the hospital anyway lol so there’s that.
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Post by sdlaura on Mar 15, 2020 22:01:33 GMT -6
I’m sorry danib I think a lot could change in all our birth plans because of the virus, unfortunately. willow I’m with you on visitors. With our first no one visited us. We had asked my parents not to fly out until we’d had a couple weeks at home with our baby (my parents didn’t have a place here yet and I didn’t want them staying with us in the early days). It ended up being great - DH and I learned to be parents together without any interference. In contrast one of my BFFs had her mom there leading up to the birth and staying with them a long time after her first was born and I feel like that set the tone for her husband to be less involved. With DS1 we knew he was going to be born with a heart defect so we had MIL fly out in case we needed to be in the hospital with him for a long time. I had him 12 days early so she flew out from the east coast and arrived like 12 hours after he was born. Then with DS2 my parents were here at their condo and came over when we left for the hospital and then brought our kids to meet him the next morning. I’m hoping to be in the hospital a really minimal amount of time this time and probably won’t have anyone come besides DH so we don’t expose more people to anything.
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Post by danib on Mar 16, 2020 3:21:19 GMT -6
My hospital just updated their Covid policy. Only 1 support person allowed in delivery rooms. I am stressing out. My mom was there for both my boys. She has been there for every major medical event I've been through. I cannot imagine doing this without her. *I know there are much more serious consequences to what is happening, but this is big for me at this moment* Oh danib that sucks so much, I’m sorry. I know that what’s going on in the world is a big deal and tragic but this new change in the hospital is directly affecting you. I understand how upsetting it is and think it’s more than okay to be feeling this way😢 what would be an option for you? Could she FaceTime? Would that even be allowed? Would they let your H and your mom swap out (probably not since the risk would still be there with two people being present even at differing times.) Especially if she has always been your support, that’s hard to have to accept she won’t be allowed. I’m glad your contractions stopped! I doubt they would allow swaps, as that's still additional people coming on and off the floor. I have a tendency of having really intense labours. With C I was in labour for over 36 hours. We legit only got through it so well because mom and DH were able to take turns supporting me (one would rest/snack/get stuff I needed/whatever, while the other one walked with me or helped me in the shower, etc). With H it started similar but then progressed so quickly it was really scary, then I wouldn't stop bleeding and H stopped breathing and the whole thing was super scary. So basically I just really need my mom there too. *I'm being a Sook, I'm aware. I'll get over it once I have some time to process it* I'm cool with not having a pile of visitors coming through. I had a 5 day stay after H though, so I really needed some company, so I wouldn't want it completely eliminated, but limited is totally fine.
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Post by danib on Mar 16, 2020 7:18:26 GMT -6
Baby is measuring ahead as 29w4d and weighs 3lbs. He's gonna be a big boy like his brothers.
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Post by sdlaura on Mar 16, 2020 8:21:36 GMT -6
danib under the circumstances can you labor at home most of the time with your mom and husband? Or is the hospital really far away? I’ve never spent more than an hour in the hospital before giving birth, which makes it less important who is there, I think. Our hospital is about 45 min away. With my first we ended up hanging in the car there a bit till we knew it was go time. If all these closures continue, at least we don’t have to worry about traffic.
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Post by trtlcrzy on Mar 16, 2020 9:54:02 GMT -6
Oh danib that sucks so much, I’m sorry. I know that what’s going on in the world is a big deal and tragic but this new change in the hospital is directly affecting you. I understand how upsetting it is and think it’s more than okay to be feeling this way😢 what would be an option for you? Could she FaceTime? Would that even be allowed? Would they let your H and your mom swap out (probably not since the risk would still be there with two people being present even at differing times.) Especially if she has always been your support, that’s hard to have to accept she won’t be allowed. I’m glad your contractions stopped! I doubt they would allow swaps, as that's still additional people coming on and off the floor. I have a tendency of having really intense labours. With C I was in labour for over 36 hours. We legit only got through it so well because mom and DH were able to take turns supporting me (one would rest/snack/get stuff I needed/whatever, while the other one walked with me or helped me in the shower, etc). With H it started similar but then progressed so quickly it was really scary, then I wouldn't stop bleeding and H stopped breathing and the whole thing was super scary. So basically I just really need my mom there too. *I'm being a Sook, I'm aware. I'll get over it once I have some time to process it* I'm cool with not having a pile of visitors coming through. I had a 5 day stay after H though, so I really needed some company, so I wouldn't want it completely eliminated, but limited is totally fine. I can only speak for my hospital but the visitor policy is one visitor per patient in the building at a time. But if that visitor leaves then another one can come in. We also screen every single person that comes in. Hopefully they will lighten up or lift the restrictions by the time most of us deliver.
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Post by danib on Mar 16, 2020 10:46:02 GMT -6
danib under the circumstances can you labor at home most of the time with your mom and husband? Or is the hospital really far away? I’ve never spent more than an hour in the hospital before giving birth, which makes it less important who is there, I think. Our hospital is about 45 min away. With my first we ended up hanging in the car there a bit till we knew it was go time. If all these closures continue, at least we don’t have to worry about traffic. I will absolutely labour at home as long as possible. With DS2 though I went from being stuck for hours to dilating from 6 to having him in my arms in minutes. So I also have to be cautious. But my hospital is 5 minutes away so I am pretty confident I could make it there or something similar were to happen.
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