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My hospital had a combination of private and shared rooms. When I gave birth, the maternity ward was super packed but when all the private rooms were full, the hospital put the overflow from maternity on an empty part of the pediatric unit instead of doubling us up. It was awesome, the rooms were bigger and the nurses were sooo excited to be working with healthy babies and mommies rather than sick kids!
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Private - only option at our hospital.
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Public hospital so after leaving the delivery suite I shared a room with 2 other women and their babies. Only way to get a private room was to have a csection - and partners/dads were only allowed to stay if you were in a private room, so hubby couldn't stay with me since I was in a shared room. Hoping to transfer to a birth center for my post natal stay for this LO though!
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Private! I'm not sure whether my hospital even has shared rooms, but we'd have paid if we needed to. Shared sounds awful. LO has her own room here in the nicu too, with a place for me to sleep, etc.
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I had a private room both times.
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Private. I think all the hospitals in the Charlotte area are private maternity rooms.
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Shared. The 2nd baby I was out of there the second I could (after the heel prick at 24 hrs).
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Only private here. Geez I would hate to share a bathroom more than a room!!
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Only private rooms at our hospital, everything happened in that room! Labor, delivery, recovery!
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I was originally supposed to deliver at a NYC hospital where private rooms were something like $900/night and not necessarily available depending on the waiting list.
I had several other issues with that hospital too, including hearing a lot of horror stories about their triage process.
We had already moved to Hoboken, so towards the end of my second trimester I switched to a hospital in NJ which had no triage process, private postpartum rooms, and a few other other improvements over the NYC delivery scene.
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first time i paid a fortune for a private room but it was totally worth it. I had an extended stay because of a c section, and it was a huge room with an extra bed so mr bee could stay with me the entire time.
second time i had a shared room, and it was totally fine. i was alone most of the time, and i didn't have the first time parent anxiety. plus private rooms are super expensive here!
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My area doesn't have shared rooms so ours was private. It was huge and fancy too since its a new hospital. I felt like I was on vacation, you know, with the added "fun" of the whole being in labor and pushing out a human from my vagina thing.
My hospital also had a separate wing for L&D and recovery. Which was nice because the recovery wing had blackout curtains and strict rules on noise levels and visitors for moms who would be sleeping all day. They also had a pretty cool couch that folded to become a super comfy cushy bed for Dad's to stay in room with Mom's the entire stay.
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Our hospital only has private rooms. I've worked in many hospitals and actually never seen shared rooms for post-partum! I'm guessing there is some amount of regionality to it.
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Private - that is all our hospital has!
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Private. All rooms were private.
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Private room! My hospital has no shared rooms.
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Our hospital only had private rooms, that was a factor in choosing it. I can't imagine having a shared room.
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Private - pretty sure they don't have shared rooms at my hospital.
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Our hospital only has private rooms. They do transfer you to a different room after delivery, but it's still private.
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I had a private room and I think it was necessary. My sister had to share when she had both of her boys and it seemed awful.
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Ours was just remodeled, private and nice. I was grateful, but (on another note) had a nurse I didn't like. She was a very bad experience.
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@regberadaisy: Awesome! Here the private rooms are $240 per day extra.
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Private. There aren't any shared rooms around me that I'm aware of. Sharing a room sounds like a nightmare.
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@BKCaribBaby: the only people I know who have shared are in NYC. All the hospitals here in Boston seem to be almost exclusively private rooms (one friend had to share for a night because they were just crazy full the night she had her son, in the middle of a baby boom). My sister had a terrible roommate the first night after she had her son in NYC and sent her husband to pay any amount of money to move them (nurses took pity and moved her anyway).
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Private labour/delivery room, semi-private recovery. But there was no one else in the recovery room with me, so it was basically private.
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Private room for L&D and then a shared room postpartum for LO1 (we went home straight from the delivery room with LO2). I thought it would be tough but it was seriously no big deal. We kept the curtain pulled the whole time so I never even saw the lady I was sharing a room with!
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Semi private which meant shared bathroom. Which when recovering PP is kind of gross. Next time maybe we will upgrade to full private if it's not too $$$.
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