Author: Breezy_Ann
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:25 am
1st I want to say I am so sorry you are going thru this. I have 4 kids, boys ages 5 & 3 and 11 month old twin girls. The twins were a month early so Ava was in the nicu for 8 days and Adelyn for 11 days. It is so hard to have your children in 2 seperate places and you feel so guilty because they both need you. I also lived an hour away from the hospital. I would wake up in the morning get ready and go spend a few hours st the hospital, then I would come home spend time with my boys and wait for my husband to get off work at 4pm. Then the 2 of us would go up to the hospital for a couple of hours, come feed the boys and put them to bed. After I was released from my c-section I only spent the night once at the hospital, the night before Ava was released they asked us to spend the night to make sure she was ready.
As far as how the nurses are treating you, that is unacceptable! You need to stand up for yourself and demand respect, tell them I did what I was told by my Dr . I would inform them if they do not treat you the same as the other patents then I will report you. You have enough on your plate with out rude bias judgemental nurses. Also because I could not be there all day, I would call and check on my daughters every couple hours and they were to call me immediately if anything changed. It is also pretty common from what I have read for nurses to see normal newborn behavior as withdrawl and I fear there may be babies weaned with morphine when it was’nt necessary. I am not saying your baby is one, obviously I wouldnt know.
Stand up for you and your baby, tell them you want all info and tell them you will no longer accept being treated like a third rate citizen. Congratulations! You have your precious baby you have waited so long to meet and my thoughts are with you and your family.
Please excuse my spelling and grammar errors as I an typing my babies keep grabbing the keyboard.
