Recommendations from friends, acquaintances and online reviews are not always prompt you the right choice. To choose the doctor you need heart, and the hospital you must go and see the conditions. What is the priority?
Give birth together with your spouse, mother, Dole - it is important that loved one was near. The main thing - tune into favorable for delivery, nice and easy outcome. A further consultation and communication with the doctor can not hurt.
Find out information in advance
Their most probably the common case today - free delivery at your nearest hospital. That it often "fast" driven by a pregnant woman in labor. At the same time, many moms in order to prevent unexpected situations during childbirth, agree with the doctor.
It also happens that in the event of any problems during pregnancy, the doctor guides the future mother in pathology department at a particular hospital, and there already experienced doctor monitors and maintains the further process delivery.
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Schedule refurbishment in hospitals
As often happens: the future mommy goes to the hospital for pregnancy, sent to the hospital to get up in the hospital on account of or agree with the doctor, and is... that the hospital just in the period of delivery will be closed for refurbishment (to put it on a sink). Be sure to check the schedule refurbishment in hospitals in your city.
Bag ready and documents all the time with a
Bag to the hospital to be collected with your clothes and things for the baby on the list, which is also worth taking in the hospital. Usually the head of the hospital sign card exchange, starting from 32 weeks.
Pre-assemble the necessary documents (passport, exchange card, insurance policy, if labor paid by the insurance company).
Note that in the absence of the exchange cards you can send to the observational branch, because doctors do not have information about the health of mothers. Therefore, in the last weeks of pregnancy, it is best to wear all the documents with you.
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The conditions offered by the hospital
An important criterion - the ability to choose the most a doctor to see the conditions of delivery and postpartum. Yet no matter how flattering nor were comments about the doctor and the hospital, get acquainted with all the terms of their own.
Do not postpone a visit to the hospital, and in a conversation with the doctor to ask in detail about the conditions:
- whether to allow delivery partner, you can receive a free posture, walk or sit on a fitball, take a shower.
- in some cases, the uterus is stimulating and anesthesia during labor
- how many people can stay in the postnatal ward,
- Is there a shower in a box or just on the floor,
- whether to allow the hospital to visit, what time
- whether there is a toll Chamber.
The undoubted advantage of the hospital
- Well, if the hospital is close to home or to drive away, avoiding traffic jams (this is important when it comes to the metropolis). If you chose the hospital, which is remote from you, then think carefully about the route (especially in case of emergency). "First" in most cases, prompt you to go to the nearest hospital, so it may happen that you have to get the cash transport or Taxi.
- Reasonable to opt for maternity hospital with neonatal intensive care unit. So you can be sure that not only the birth will take place peacefully, but also neonatologists will be on hand to assist if necessary expert assistance to the newborn crumbs.
- In some hospitals baby lay on his stomach to his mother and put to the breast immediately after birth. And in the other taken to separate mother and baby for a few hours after delivery. If you are a supporter of natural childbirth and breastfeeding is right for you, of course, the first option.
- Chamber in various maternity wards different level of comfort. Bathroom and shower may be on the floor or directly in the House. Depending on the conditions in the postnatal ward may be up to 4 young mothers. Now, in many hospitals there are pay wards with all facilities and special family, which together with the family can sleep and dad.
It is important to take care of everything to the last minute once again not to worry and not to worry.
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