How to choose a hospital

Birth of a child - the long-awaited moment of any couple. Everyone is carefully prepared for this, buy dowry to the baby, choose the first transport, toys, pick up the name. But the most important topic for discussion remains where the baby appears to appear on the light. To the question of choosing a maternity hospital, it is necessary to take very responsible, because the life of both a child and moms depends on.

On the way to the choice of hospital

From your experience I know that the maternity hospital needs to choose in advance, and not in recent days, as many advise. The fact is that pregnancy - the process is extremely unpredictable: childbirth can begin at any time. So the search for the maternity hospital is starting from collecting information.

1. Find out to which maternity hospital you feel in your advice. But if the state selection does not suit you, then by law you can choose the maternity hospital that you consider comfortable. Searches should be started with friends, those mammies who have already gone. They can thoroughly describe all the shortcomings and the advantages of this or that maternity hospital, you should only listen and make a choice.
2. My advice: Choose not one hospital, but two or three. That is, one main, and a couple for the suspension. Why? Yes, in the summer, for example, one closes on prevention, the other may simply not accept you because of a large flow of mothers, or you have such rapid gifts that no one will be in your hospital to your hospital - will be taken to the nearest.
3. Focus on pregnancy: if you, for example, complex pregnancy or doctors predict premature birth - then you should pay attention to the hospital with good children and adult resuscitation.

What to pay attention to the hospital

Well, for a start, I will say that one in the maternity hospital do not go. Take your husband or on the extreme case of a girlfriend. Do not hesitate to like the chambers and generic chairs, or ask the most ridiculous questions - this is your right and no one has the right to refuse. The moments for which the readers of the MirSesites should pay attention to such a walk:

1. Chambers of prenatal location. As you understand, it is better to lie for childbirth in advance, for 3 days to prepare morally and once again carry out the necessary additional analyzes and ultrasound. Therefore, pay attention to the chambers and the number of people in them, the presence of a refrigerator, cooler, microwave. Usually it is located on the floor for universal use.
2. Sankomnata. I think you should not say that in the cranes should be hot and cold water around the clock. Pay attention to how removed the Snank and how often it is cleaned.
3. Rodzala. Look in the maternity hospital, check if there is air conditioning (Believe me, it will be necessary for you), equipped for any type of childbirth. So, by law, all hospitals should be equipped with European standards, namely: comfortable bed, Swedish wall with ropes, phytballs, chairs, and t.NS. For what? The fact is that a woman has the right to give birth in that position and pose, which is convenient for her: standing, sitting on the ball. But at the same time, there must be a bed so that in the case of force-magazine, you could put and provide medical care. If you decide to choose a non-standard way of childbirth in water, then pay attention to the purity and disinfection of the baths.
4. Postpartum chambers. Here you will live for 3-7 days, depending on the flow of labor. You must offer one and double chambers, as well as a family chamber, for those who give birth to a partner. Yes, the chambers are of different equipment and a different comfort, but necessarily a joint stay with the child. It so happened that because of the lack of space I had one day to stay in the usual chamber. I can assure: Girls, better overpay - and rest with comfort. Old frames, permanent midges, no light bulbs (yes yes, you did not hear) - it will lead you into rabies, and you need it? Comfortable chambers must be equipped with metal-plastic windows, a refrigerator, a table, chairs, a separate shower and running outlets, in some cases - air conditioning.
5. Equipment equipment. Any maternity hospital should have resuscitation branches, both for mothers and children, children's incubators, chambers to accommodate children in case of problems, as well as operating rooms. Specify the possibility of blood transfusion, if necessary.
6. Staff. Doctors, nurses should be adequate, knowing their work and responsibilities. Separately, I note for readers MyMedinform.COM that in every maternity hospital should be a neonatologist who examines the crumb in the first seconds after birth and evaluates its condition. If in the maternity hospital for some reason there is no such doctor - run without regard.
7. Schedule visiting. Now practically everyone began to practice free visits. Therefore, specify which hours you can visit, and can I bring flowers.
8. Canteen. Personally, I was in the hospital deprived of such joy. So I was very interested to know that my girlfriend found a hospital with her own kitchen, which was quite surprised by both of us. Maybe you get so happiness!
9. Education. In the maternity hospital, you must submit free seminars on childbirth, childcare, teach how to properly apply crumb to chest and how to correct milk.

Possible problem situations

Maternity hospital - a place where problems should not be in principle (I'm not talking about the birth yourself). But, there are different situations, and I would like to tell about them to readers our site, so that you were ready for everything.

1. Negotiate with the doctor in advance or not - this is personally your case. But there are cases when, receiving money, the doctor just can't come. It happens extremely rarely but happens.
2. Hospitals very often practice stimulation of labor. No, not medicated, it is prohibited. But manually - no one forbade. Therefore, carefully treat the words «Come, I'll see you on the chair», pronounced watch so at 6 in the morning - with a probability of 90% after such a visit after lunch you already give birth.
3. Food after childbirth. If you are not after Cesarean, then do not listen to the fairy tales of doctors that you do not need to eat or need to comply with a diet. Doctors just do not want to mess with sick tummy crumbs. Such a diet will quickly deprive you of milk and then you will have to return lactation for a long time. On personal experience verified. Yes, I do not argue, homemade fatty dairy products, no chicken. But it is also no need to starve. Fit as usual, balanced, but in moderation and not fat. And it is better to look for a hospital with a kitchen - you will definitely tell you what and how you can have.
4. Incidents with nurses. Stories about what they get a little - myth. And if nurses do not fulfill their duties or do them inactively, boldly complain to the upstream guidance. Especially pay attention to the work of the staff, if a child for some reason is not with you. The child must be fed and be clean, and not lying in a dirty diaper for 3 hours (do not be surprised and it happens!).

If you are breastfeeding, remember: Without your consent, no one has the right to register your child with a mixture under any circumstances! In the period when the kid is not with you, you constrain the milk for him and bring the nurses. If for some reason the child demanded milk earlier, then the imputed staff runs to you and speaks about it, and it does not work independently, because, you see, it is difficult for them to go to your ward.

A reasonable approach to the choice of maternity hospital - the key to prosperous labor. Yes, I understand, today is not cheap. But in this matter saving inappropriate. There is nothing more important than calm and health mom and baby!