Hospital tours

[seamonster]

Has anyone toured their hospital or birth center yet?

We just went on the tour of our hospital yesterday and the labor & delivery room is HUGE. We could have a party in there

 

[jessesgirl]

We didn't get to tour ours because I waited until 2 months before Justin was born and then all their saturdays were booked up (sat. was the only day they allowed tours). I was disappointed, but I ended up in there twice the week I had him, so I had a pretty good idea as to how it was laid out....our room was huge, too! It had a rocking chair, two recliners, and a couch....and then I had plenty of room for me to have my space, too! Let's just say at one point I had about 15 people in my room and no one invaded my space!!!

You are almost there, yea!!!

 

[purpleunicorn_Andi]

I guess I could find out if they do any sort of tours... I just finally faxed my paperwork over yesterday to pre registar....

 

[Redstiletto]

Yeah I need to send my paperwork in and schedule my tour.

I am nervous, but I think they do the tour during the birthing class, but I will have to find out for sure!

 

[seamonster]

You are almost there, yea!!!

I know! I'm so excited

Actually seeing the hospital rooms made everything seem so much more real to me. I'm still pretty shocked that I only have a few weeks left -- it seems like this pregnancy has lasted for EVER

We did pre-registration at the end of the tour so I got the paperwork out of the way, which was nice.

 

[Linnis]

With Ethan's trouble we had 17 nurses, 3 doctors , me and my husband in there...they get small pretty quick!

 

[Beth1231]

Seventeen nurses, Linnis!!?? Wow...

Well, I went to orientation two weeks before my first birth center appointment and that included a tour. I love it there. The waiting room feels like a study (big library to borrow from in there), the exam rooms feel like rooms in your home, only with an exam table and the birthing rooms are very similar to cozy bedrooms with colorful bedspreads, a desk and pictures lining the walls. I really like it there a lot. Oh, and they have a kitchen too with a table, chairs and refrigerator. That's where Hubby will wait when I need to labor by myself or he just needs a break from the emotional mommy to be.

 

[PegasusOnFire]

I love my maternity center, I get to LDRP in it, so I never have to leave my room. The C-section rooms are a bit smaller than the birthing rooms, but when I had my daughter that was the only room open at the time, the month Christian was born there were over 380 babies born, just at that hospital. The day after I had Christian 19 women were discharged with their newborns. I am praying that May will be much less busy.

I am going to be giving birth at the same hospital that I did with Christian, it was also the same hospital I was born in and used to work in.

 

[purpleunicorn_Andi]

this is what the labor and delivery rooms look like where I'll be
http://www.baptisthealthsystem.com/virtual_tours/stlukes/index.html

I wonder if they will have the nice bathtubs like the one where I had Robert... it was like a whirlpool bath...