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yes, we shelled out $750 per night for a private room. i thought it was worth it to have DH stay the night and not be bothered by a crying baby next door.
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@Anagram: I'm from Dallas and just gave birth in NYC, and I kept thinking about the crazy sh*t we put up with here that would never happen in Texas, especially the shared room situation. That would never fly at big, beautiful Baylor! Oh well, we had a healthy baby/mom which is all I cared about..
To answer the question, I thought we'd do a private room, but in the end I couldn't justify $800/night (our hospital's private rooms may be the most expensive in the city) and our shared room was fine. Just one of the many indignities we endure for the privilege of living in this great city, I suppose!
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All rooms were private at our hospital. I was willing to shell out an extra $100/night for a suite but they were all taken.
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Yep, all of the rooms at our hospital were private. I couldn't imagine sharing. I passed out the first time I went to the bathroom to pee. I made a mess and my gown flew open. I was embarrassed enough in front of my MIL!
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All the rooms were private at my hospital. They were all large and had whirlpool tubs and they would bring in a twin size bed for the Dad. You could pay an extra $600 and get the deluxe room, which had a lakefront view, a big screen TV with blue ray, a limo ride home, and a gourmet 3 course meal but we opted not to do that!
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Our hospital charges a $25 fee for a private room if you have insurance or are private pay. If you don't pay the fee, you may not get a private room. Pretty good deal since the fee also gives you a couple of parking passes. they do this since most other hospitals in the area have all private rooms, so they need this to compete.
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yes, the room is so much nicer than my apartment!
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Yes, I delivered in a Women's Hospital with dedicated floors for labor/delivery and post-partum. It was so nice, and I can't really imagine sharing a room with someone else after birth!
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@hummusgirl: haha, we could probably talk forever about it. Honestly, living here has made me appreciate a lot of things about Dallas that I definitely didn't appreciate living there...like, I thought, that's how it was everywhere!
For instance, at my old ob/gyn (in Presbyterian's Margot Perot center for women's health) gave us real robes, not paper, and comfy new, clean socks during exams, and had huge beautiful rooms, super nice waiting room, valet parking, and state of the art equipment there in the office--3d sonograms, regular sonograms, everything.
Here in Hoboken, I went to the doctor's group most recomended on mommy boards and comparatively, the waiting room and office were run down, the rooms were *teeny* without even a chair for my husband and no place to put my clothes when I took them off, the front desk staff was shouting across to each other about ordering pizza, then proceeded to eat it AT the front desk in a big group, while nauceous pregnant ladies sat 3 feet away. The office can't do ultrasounds themselves, they refer you to the hospital, which was even worse. Sigh. Just....sigh.
=)There are plenty of things I like about living here, but the general customer service is definitely not one of them.
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We had a private room. We were told during the tour that almost all the rooms were private;they only doubled up when it was very busy and would move the second person out as soon as a room was available.
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We had to pay $100 each night to "upgrade" to a private room. They didn't bill insurance, only took cash beforehand which I thought was totally weird.
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I did. They put me back in a corner room and pretty much let me do whatever. Part of that was because of the situation.
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yup all the rooms at our hospital are private! love our hospital.
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@travelgirl1: that's horrible! Making demands on a new mom so he could make a phone call?! I would not have handled it well!
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Yes we had a private room, I'm not aware of any hospitals near me that have shared rooms. I also stayed in the same room the entire stay. All the times I went in for pre-term labor I had a private room as well. I don't think I could handle having to share a room with another woman who is in labor!!!
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Thankfully it was our only option. I was in the hospital for a long time, so I would have been really uncomfortable in a shared room.
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Only private at the hospitali delivered at. Whew!
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