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I had a long labor so I had a lot of L&D nurses. I loved the one who ultimately helped me deliver. My PP nurses were pretty good. The one I had overnight my first night there was really tough and sort of mean. On the other hand, she probably helped me the most with breastfeeding so I wasn't complaining too much.

My last hospital stay was so horrendous my pediatrician & ob coordinated to let me go home a day early.

My sister, who would normally say I'm overreacting, was at my hospital & even said it was time for me to go home bc the care was so awful

In general they were pretty good. I had one nurse at the very end of my labor who I thought was a little too pushy about what position I needed to be in (I kept saying I wanted to try to get on all fours, and she basically said "no you're fine how you are"). And one PP nurse made a thoughtless comment that really upset me at the time (DS was crying in his sleep and she made a "joke" that he was having an nightmare about his shots and procedures), but in retrospect that was probably more hormones.

I had great nurses the whole time

Delightful. I liked my L&D nurses a little better but all in all everyone was amazing!

L&D nurses were amazing. There were 3 or 4 shift changes so I met a lot and sometimes student nurses helping too. My water broke and soaked one. I felt bad but her partner was laughing so hard and told me not to worry, it's all part of the job and a good lesson to learn not to stand in the line of fire during practice pushes.

There were fantastic PP nurses in the maternity ward who knew exactly what I needed/wanted before I even asked and loaded me up with all kinds of goodies and freebies to make recovery easier. Except one PP nurse who was very stingy with everything, including numbing cream, PP ice packs, things that make it more comfortable. So that rubbed me the wrong way.

I loooved my L&D! She was so awesome. We were like bffs. My postpartum nurse was awful

Loved my l/d nurse. The pp nurses were okay. Nothing to write home about but no complaints either.

I didn't have much interaction with nurses because the midwives were my attending care-people, but I did have one nurse who tracked along with me. She was the one who ended up delivering K, because no one else made it in time! She was incredible - and even came back after her shift was over to check on me.

They were great. My entire hospital experience was great. The only complaint I had was that LO was very obviously hungry and hangry and one nurse asked if I wanted them to give her a bottle of formula and so I asked them to supplement with formula because I had nothing to feed her. They took her to the nursery where I assumed they fed her so I could get some sleep for a couple of hours but they brought her back and told me to try bf again - they hadn't given her any formula. Wtf, I get bf is good, but bottom line is the infant was hungry.

My nurses during labor were SO awesome - I wrote a letter to the charge nurse and the nurse manager to tell them how fantastic they were. Unfortunately they got pulled and then their shift ended before shit got real, so the nurse I had during delivery was good, but not great. I think i would have stayed much more calm if I'd had the original 2. My nurse when I first got to maternity was kind of awful. But after that they were great.

My L&D nurses were fine and caring, but not particularily helpful (in telling me how to push and positions and so on). My PP nurse was awesome. She took such good care of me and knew exactly when to push me to walk and shower (after c-sec), that I recovered very quickly.

I had awesome nurses. I was very happy with the care I received.

everyone was pretty nice--no complaints. oh, one during L&D was a bit less than stellar, but not to a degree where i would complain.

The L&D nurses were fabulous. I honestly loved them and I spent a lot of time there.

LO had to spend a week in the special care nursery (not technically a NICU, but close) and it was staffed by an extra L&D nurse. I was not a fan of all of them. I realize it wasn't the most exciting to be in there with just him, but that doesn't mean you should be falling asleep at the desk. (This was just one. I was going to report it if she was in charge of LO again, but he was discharged the next day. I still think I should have said something.)

L&D nurses were so amazing that I sent their manager an email afterward, asking for her to recognize them!
The PP nurses were good, too.

First L&D nurse was awful, second shift nurse was much, much better. Postpartum nurses were hit or miss--I had one amazing one, and 2 so-so nurses. And the same in the nursery--one awful one, and one good one (LO was taken to the nursery because her jaundice levels were high and she had to spend 24 hours under the lights).

I probably should have formally complained about the one bad nursery nurse--she acted SO put out when I came every 2-3 hours to feed LO. She told me several times she just wanted to give formula (after I'd told her I was trying to BF). She made me cry....I definitely should have followed up on it. Every time I would go in there, she would huff and sigh and tell me there was no room for me to BF. But then the other shift nurse would be SO AWESOME and would bring LO to ME every 2 hours for me to feed in my room. The difference was night and day.

I had a mixed bag. First L&D nurse was obviously new.. she was older but I could just tell by the way the other staff (and doctors) spoke to her that she didn't have much experience. Oh that and it took her 3 blown veins to start my hep-loc... awful.

When her shift ended we were blessed with the most incredible nurse with an awesome Ukranian accent. She was a 'straight-shooter' and told me exactly what I needed to do/hear, all while being super encouraging and empowering. She was there through my entire pushing stage/delivery and was so awesome the whole time. I delivered late in the evening and they were short on L&D nurses so my super nurse was shuffled away to another delivery. Then things sort of fell apart again... they never assigned me a new nurse and I just sort of fell off their radar. I was so blissed out I didn't really notice but it turns out I went without liquids, ice (!!! big mistake), and meds for about 8 hours. When a nurse finally came in she noticed that I hadn't peed yet-- although my epidural had long worn off, the nerves to my bladder hadn't woken up yet so I had zero urge. I was totally distended and had to be re-catheterized which was awful. Plus I'm pretty sure my lady-parts recovery was hindered by the swelling/lack of ice but at the time I had nothing to compare to so I thought it was normal.