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My day nurses were absolutely wonderful but the night nurse was awful. During the day everyone was so encouraging, showing me how to do everything and helping when I needed to rest. But the night nurse would only tell me I was doing it all wrong and that is why he is crying. Then she wouldn't do anything to help! She was not encouraging at all and seemed like a very negative person. Looking back I wish I had said something and gotten a different nurse. As a first time mom I didn't need all that negativity.

It was mostly good. Some of the nurses are a bit pushy with their opinions, but most of them were great

@autumnlove: I'm so sorry that your nurse was not more sensitive about the new-mommy hormone-induced crying. One of my nurses witnessed a new-Mommy ugly cry from me (I was crying because we had to get re-admitted to the hospital because LO lost weight at home, plus the breastfeeding was hurting me so much and I couldn't seem to get it right). She was very nice about it, but I could tell that it made her a little uncomfortable and concerned her. I liked that there were so many different nurses, because there will naturally be some that just don't match your own personality needs. You know?

I had pretty good nurses but wished they had been a little more helpful with breastfeeding. Rather than explaining what I needed to do and watching me do it they just sort of "forced" DD onto my boob always in the football hold which wasn't that comfortable for either of us. The hospital lactation consultant was a little better but always seemed in a hurry to get somewhere else.

I was in L&D twice with my first pregnancy. 2 weeks before I delivered I was hospitalized for 4 days with a kidney infection. Great nurses, horrible covering physicians (my MD was on vacation)
After delivery, my nurses were great when they were in the room attending to me. but they weren't good at follow up. I asked at least four times for someone to come in and help me get the hang of BF and each time I was forgotten (until finally at 3am someone came to help but it was rushed). They were really overwhelmed (short staffed)...there were 11 babies born in 24 hours and I was the only vaginal birth so I think the other woman required more care and I was neglected- enough so that DH swore he wouldn't let me deliver there again.
When I went in to see my OB this time around for my first prenatal appt my DH and I expressed our concerns about the lack of follow up from the nurses. my OB was really disappointed with how we felt. Unfortunately she doesn't deliver anywhere else and I heart my doctor so I am going to give it another go, and go in knowing I might need to be more demanding.

They were good with checking up on my vitals and bringing advil but no one was very helpful about breastfeeding. I can't even remember if a lactation consultant showed up even though they said during the hospital tour (of course) that everyone gets to see a LC during their stay. Also, I remember that they were very quick to suggest using pacifiers and formula to get DD back to sleep.

I only had one nurse during delivery that was awful and one postpartum that I didn't like as much as the others. The night nurse immediately following my delivery was great though. I passed out the first time I tried to stand up and made a mess of the room. She cleaned it up, helped me to the bathroom, all of that while still being great to me. She even said she wanted to come back to help me stand through the rest of her shift and make sure I was okay and helped me with breastfeeding. I was disappointed when she didn't come back the second night.

for the most part i had wonderful nurses adn Lc. excpet one nurse was very rude and wouldnt help with my pain managment even though i kept telling her the nausea medicine that they were giving me was not working, while i was throwing up and trying to bf my baby. it took my anotehr day and nurse for them to switch my medcine. and she would be really condescending when i said stuff to her. other then that the other nurses were not pushy on what i wanted to do and were very sweet and helpful. but man i really dislike that nurse, she was really mean.

My nurses were all pretty good - some we liked more than others, but everyone was helpful and offered advice without being too pushy. The night nurses did seem surprised that we wanted LO to stay with us in the room instead of going to the nursery, but I wanted to get the hang of breastfeeding and figured it was best keeping him in the room. They never pushed pacifiers on us - only offered one if we wanted to try. I guess the only complaint I had was that the first time I tried breastfeeding, the nurse that was helping me had me use a nipple shield because she thought I had flat nipples. She set up a consultation with a LC but that wasn't until the next day and the LC was very surprised she gave the shield to me without explaining why or offering other suggestions to help before using the shield. I got the feeling the nurses and LC's don't really get along...

All of the postpartum day nurses were so helpful but i found the night shift nurses to be awful! One in particular was so rough with my lo when we had trouble nursibg, and reeked of smoke.

Most of my postpartum nurses were great. There was one that I wish we would have asked for a replacement. DS was a champ at nursing right from the start. I was ecstatic. We had one instance where he was wanting to comfort nurse. He was a day or two old, I really wasn't worried. The nurse insisted that he had been nursing for too long and that she needed to take him for a test to check his lungs. That led to him having his lungs suctioned for fluid, even though all xrays came up clear & the doctor came in and ultimately said his lungs were clear. DS fought nursing after that. We ended up with a horrible lactation consultant. I breastfed for a month before switching to formula. I wholeheartedly believe that DS associated BFing with the procedure he had. It makes me angry to this day!

The nurses were fine, but I don't understand why they needed to come in every single hour during the night. If I was sleeping, they would wake me up. So annoying!