Did anyone show up to the hospital to give birth, but all the bed were full? What happened?
Curious, because we have a new birthing center but they kept the old birthing center for overflow, which they seem to be making a lot of use out of!
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With LO 1 even the triage rooms were full! Luckily (?) I went into full blown contractions 2-3 minutes apart within an hour of arriving in the waiting room and they managed to put me in a triage room before moving me on to L&D. I jumped ahead of at least 15 other women, so they definitely gave priority to the ones who had the greatest need.
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Yes. I had been sent home earlier in the night and told to COME BACK when I had progressed further. Eight hours later when I returned they were full and told me I should have called and they would have sent me 25 miles away (no thanks). I ended up waiting 5 hours in triage with two other women. I'm not sure what DH & doula did during that time.
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With my first, I was scheduled for an induction. We were told to get there at 7, and I didn't get a room until 8/8:30 because there were so many women in labor. With my 2nd, it was a scheduled c-section, and the nurse told me I was lucky, because I was the only induction/c-section that wasn't rescheduled because of a high amount of women giving birth.
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I delivered my baby at an Air Force base in Italy that only had three delivery rooms. I, thankfully, had a bed for my delivery (one of the perks of having an induction), but a few hours after I had her, we were kicked out (in the middle of the night) and had to go to an itty-bitty room down the hall because three other women came in for delivery! That was one of my fears all along, because if you were the fourth woman in labor, they would send you to the Italian hospital.
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Yes! I spent a lot of labor in the PACU because none of the triage rooms have warmers and they thought LO would come before a room opened up.
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I think there was only one other woman on the floor when I was admitted. The baby camp class we had to take to be discharged had about 5-6 couples in it, though, so others were admitted.
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It was full when I went in, thinking that my bh were real contractions. Luckily, it was just my ligaments stretching and nothing else going on.
That was one of the perks of a planned c section. My room was all ready for me, before I even got there.
My MIL tells me stories of how she almost had to have BIL in the hallway it was so packed.
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Yes, but I think that's fairly typical in NYC. I just waited it out until there was a room available.
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Yes - I stayed in the triage room for a couple of hours until a room opened up. It wasn't a big deal... there was a chair/bed, bathroom, place for DH to sit etc so it wasn't much different from laboring in the room we eventually moved into.
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Not in the L&D rooms but we did have to wait an extra hour or so for a recovery room. Now I'm wondering if I shouldn't ask for a 9/2 induction! I'm thinking a lot of people will choose that date!
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@Mrs. Rabbit: Ah! I don't know anything about Italian hospitals (good, bad?) but the unknown would be sooo scary.
@lovehoneybee: Thats how it was with L too - I had my choice of nurses and they were all sooo nice and accommodating and relaxed. It's not looking like that will be the case this time
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Triage was full (I waited in the waiting room and chatted with a girl whose mom had just given birth to her baby brother).
L&D itself had a space for me (and didn't seem to be full, from what I remember of walking down the hall to the room), but they had some sort of maintenance issue in the maternity wing, so I was in L&D long past when they usually keep people there. Which was fine, because it was big and comfy, but my awesome nurse kept on apologizing because she kept on having to run and get supplies they don't normally keep in there ;).
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We were scheduled for an induction and they said they were too busy. It wasn't that they didn't have the rooms, I don't think they had the staff (nurses).
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I had called around 9 pm, but they told me to labor at home as long as possible. When I called back around 2 am the midwife was like, ok let me make sure we have a bed for you, it's pretty full. At that point I was like, um I'm coming in no matter what, there is no pause button! Luckily they had a room and we headed in, no issues once we arrived. Got there at 3:30 am to triage, baby born less than four hours later. I could not have labored in a waiting room!!
I was kind of worried about this, since my birth month was very popular (9 months after hurricane sandy and all it's blackouts here in New England).
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@swurlygurl: Not horrible, in the sense that they've been having babies in Italy forever, but scary enough (especially with the language barrier) that I really didn't want to be sent there.
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Triage was full so I was left in the hallway waiting area for awhile. I almost ended up delivering in triage. Not a good experience.
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I was lucky both times there was room for me, but I've heard of people in early labour being transferred to the nearest hospital when things went nuts in L&D
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Not when I came in but it was when I left. Actually that's why they discharged me ( at 10:30pm ha ha! ) they needed the room.
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yes even all the triage rooms were full so there was nowhere available for me to get an epidural. i had to wait for hours and hours (my contractions were fast and regular as soon as they started). finally when i was 8 cm i got my epidural. it was a horrible experience because the nurses were all pretty rude.
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I delivered on thanksgiving.... Not busy at all!
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It wasn't when I got there, but it was full when we left! They were in the middle of a renovation so I think their capacity was low. Delivered the day before Thanksgiving!
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I was induced (unplanned) and they started the process on the ante-natal ward. By the time I was 4cm all the beds in the delivery suite were full, and I had to labour on the ante-natal ward. Didn't get moved to the delivery suite til I was about 7cm. I felt bad for all the poor women on ante-natal trying to sleep through my noise!
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L&D was full when I got there, but I just labored in a private triage room until one was available. In retrospect, it was kind of nice to have that time with DH in a more intimate space before labor got too tough.
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Yes, my C-section was supposed to be at 1 but didn't start til 3 because of the emergencies. I checked in at 11am.
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Yes, I called in and the Dr. assured me that it was real labor (many false episodes) but they'd have to send me to another hospital. They had just closed one, do the other surrounding 4 were full as well. Luckily where we live the hospital they sent us to was not too far and really nice. The only part that was hard was giving them my full record during contractions, nothing came across their new computer system,
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The rooms were all full but triage was empty, so I had to stay in triage for several hours. It wasn't bad, I think the worse thing about it was really just the fact that no one was really paying much attention to me while I was in there.
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Thankfully delivery rooms were available and at least for a few hours I was the only person delivering. But I must have arrived right after a huge rush of babies were born because ALL of the beds were taken. They finally found a room for me on another floor so I had my own room for a few hours, then I was shoved into the dark windowless half of a room occupied by a pregnant woman on bedrest. I felt bad for her because DS was in the room a lot - crying but she was really sweet.
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