Is it true

[4getmenot]

That in America when a baby is born a button is pressed that plays a tune through the hospital?

[divegirl]

http://www.associated...lays_chimes_when.html

They do here!

Lisa x

[4getmenot]

thats not very nice for people that lose their babies is it?

[Greedyfly]

I always wondered why people who have miscarriages are often put on wards with women who have had babies? It must make the whole situation that much worse?!


A family friend had three miscarriages over the last few years and every time she was placed on a general ward with mothers - heartbreaking!

[joeluke]

Greedyfly, that is insensitivity of the highest order

A woman who has just miscarried a child will probably be at her lowest ebb, and yet they place her on a ward with mothers and their newborns?

A bit of common sense is needed there I think

[4getmenot]

I can understand a woman thats gone into labout and so placed in that ward but then lost a baby. But not one that has already miscarried and then put into the ward.

[paddywak]

All too true, Greedytfly, my niece had severa ectopic pregnancies and for ages after wards she would burst into tears at the sight of a mother with a newborn baby. Happily thanks to IVF tratment she now has a beautiful 2 year old daughter

[B00]

I think they do try to put women who have lost babies into their own rooms where possible, my daughter had one when she lost the twins.

But in all fairness if single rooms aren't available ,where exactly can you put these women? I'm damn sure a hospital couldn't justify a ward purely for ladies who have lost babies, so then were? The geriatric ward??

Woman who have lost babies will still require after birth medical advice and midwifery care- and as insensitive as it seems the only place their going to get that is on a delivery ward.

[B00]

they're*

[squarebear]

Yes, we too were placed in a separate room when undergoing a forced miscarriage. It would have been even more heartbreaking to hear a jingly tune each time a new baby was born.

[Greedyfly]

Oh I can understand the lack of space and medical expertise etc... But it's hardly a rare thing is it having a miscarriage, sadly. I cannot imagine having to go through that and then having to watch other mothers with their babies. Traumatic.

[Greedyfly]

Very sad. I can't count how many women I know who have had miscarriages actually. A shocking amount.

[B00]

But despite the horror stories we hear, miscarriages and then forced labours are not that common. Certainly not common enough to justify a specific ward for them in a hospital.

[rowanwitch]

I really felt for them although the hospital I where I trained the late inductions for babies that died in the womb were always done in the gynae ward rather than in the maternity ward.. ....and when they had a stillbirth they tried to get the mum home within a few hours with extra midwife support...

I had to do my 5 weeks mother and new born training a week after I was told I wouldn't be able to have children (I'd had three late miscarriages),,,, I think I had red eyes the whole time, especially when they used to send me to the nursery to bottle feed the babies whose mums were not well enough .

[smudge]

I don't think that's a good idea at all!

My daughter's friend had been posting on FB, saying she couldn't wait for her first grandchild to be born. There was the usual excitement leading up to the birth, that was until my daughter rec'd a text from her friend a few days before the due date, saying they were at the hospital as they could no longer detect the baby's heartbeat.

This poor girl was full term & had to wait another three days before inducing her & giving birth to a beautiful still born baby daughter last Saturday. She was perfect in every other way....we are yet to hear what happened inside the womb. Very sad!

[smudge]

BOO - I was thinking of your daughter & you, when my daughter phoned to tell about her friend's daughter. -x-

[B00]

Oh god smudge ,that's awful. That poor family must be devastated. Was bad enough for us when we lost the twins, but the only consolation with us i guess was that they weren't full term.

What do you say in instances like that?

[jno]

that's very sad, smudge. I'm thinking of them,

[smudge]

Thanks BOO - it was an awful few days all round. Everyone knew she was carrying a girl, so they'd chosen her names & the nursery was ready, etc., etc.

My daughter's friend was ecstatic & so looking forward to holding her little granddaughter for the first time..... -x-

[smudge]

Thank you too jno. -x-

[Greedyfly]

That is terrible to hear Smudge. How awful it must be. My thoughts are with you and your friends.