First, congrats on 38 weeks! Here's hoping Little Miss is born soon, and healthy and happy!
Second, What craziness is this about them not allowing natural childbirth?? If that's your desire, and there's no medical reason you shouldn't, then what right do they have to tell you you can't?
However, what you say about the massive number of births versus only so many delivery rooms doesn't surprise me; I see that at the hospital where I work, too. There are times when there's a baby explosion and the nurses in our labor unit have to search out places to put women. It's nuts, but what can you do when the space is physically limited with absolutely no way of expanding it? It would be lovely if everyone could deliver at a birthing center like you're describing... but then, even the birthing center is only so big, and if everyone decided to go there, then they'd have the same space vs. volume problem. They might choose to handle it in a different way, but they'd still have the problem. They probably have the benefit of the majority of pregnant women going to a hospital to deliver.
I'm not at all saying that the problem means Vassar's choice of how to deal with it is the right one
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Second, What craziness is this about them not allowing natural childbirth?? If that's your desire, and there's no medical reason you shouldn't, then what right do they have to tell you you can't?
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However, what you say about the massive number of births versus only so many delivery rooms doesn't surprise me; I see that at the hospital where I work, too. There are times when there's a baby explosion and the nurses in our labor unit have to search out places to put women. It's nuts, but what can you do when the space is physically limited with absolutely no way of expanding it? It would be lovely if everyone could deliver at a birthing center like you're describing... but then, even the birthing center is only so big, and if everyone decided to go there, then they'd have the same space vs. volume problem. They might choose to handle it in a different way, but they'd still have the problem. They probably have the benefit of the majority of pregnant women going to a hospital to deliver.
I'm not at all saying that the problem means Vassar's choice of how to deal with it is the right one ( ... )
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