Room Service? Seriously??!!
Yesterday was my "OB Orientation Class." Basically, it was just a tour of the OB department of the hospital where I'm going to deliver the baby. My mom generously offered to watch the kids, and Terence and I headed off to the hospital. The hospital is quite a distance from our house, but no different than when I had B when we lived in Sanders, so I'm sure all will be fine. The nice thing is that the hospital is just a few minutes' drive from my parents' house.
It's a brand new hospital that opened last fall, so everything is nice and sparkling still. I actually had my D&C there last November, but I never went anywhere near the OB area, so this was our chance to figure out where to go to check in and all that fun stuff. Most of the other mothers on our tour were much farther along than me (at least they appeared to be), but I've learned from experience, it's better to do this kind of thing early, in case you happen to go into labor at 32 weeks.
Everything looked pretty normal to me. Terence and I spent most of the time comparing the setup to the other hospitals (since each of our kids was born at a different hospital.) This one is pretty nice compared to the others. The labor and delivery room is fairly large with all the normal, high-tech stuff. It has a huge flat screen TV that you can watch movies on, which should keep Terence happy. Unlike the Gallup hospital, which had blocked off all the individual showers (for our safety?) I'll actually be able to shower while in labor if I so desire. Plus they have a Japanese soaking tub in a nearby room, which basically looked like a large sunken tub, with a spout for water to come out of the ceiling. Our guide let us know that our labor coach is welcome to bring swim trunks and join us in the tub, which sounded hilariously funny to me. "Hey, honey, how about a romantic escape to the hot tub?" Just my kind of language when I'm in labor. Terence thought since it was a Japanese soaking tub there should be old Japanese men slapping us with wet towels. Umm, sure, Terence-- you first!!!
They have a little outdoor relaxation garden that is for OB patients and family only, something I've never seen before. You can walk there when you're in labor or bring the baby out there after the birth. There's a little playground for the baby's siblings too. Thank goodness I'm due in January! I don't think it would be much fun in 110 degree weather.
My favorite part is that this hospital has room service for the moms!!! Yep, there is a full restaurant-style color menu that I can choose what I want and order it using my TV. Best of all, the food can come any time, not just at hospital meal times. Hooray for people who figured out that new moms might get hungry on an off schedule (seeing as labor and newborns are not predictable!)
On a side note, the kids I already have here are determined to reinforce the unpredictable part of life. (Although, in a way, my kids are getting so predictable when it comes to destruction.) The other night B raided my bathroom cabinet and came out with bright pink nail polish. She brought it to me and asked to have her nails painted. I told her that she could later and took away the nail polish. I don't exactly know where my brain was at the time because I'm not sure what I then did with the polish.
Ten minutes later, B appeared at my side, waving her pretty new fingers, painted pink all by herself! (She was so proud, and I was so horrified.) Once again, I plucked away the nail polish, and brain fade kicks in because I thought I put it in my pocket. Yet at bedtime, I was escorting J to his room only to find that he had somehow come upon the nail polish. On the wall next to his door is an old piece of artwork created by M in permanent marker. Only now it had bright pink nail polish coloring it in. And yikes!!! The door jamb had also been painted with bright pink nail polish. (J denied, but the pink nail polish on his feet gave him away.)
This one is a new one for me. Does anyone have any idea how to get nail polish off the wall?????
It's a brand new hospital that opened last fall, so everything is nice and sparkling still. I actually had my D&C there last November, but I never went anywhere near the OB area, so this was our chance to figure out where to go to check in and all that fun stuff. Most of the other mothers on our tour were much farther along than me (at least they appeared to be), but I've learned from experience, it's better to do this kind of thing early, in case you happen to go into labor at 32 weeks.
Everything looked pretty normal to me. Terence and I spent most of the time comparing the setup to the other hospitals (since each of our kids was born at a different hospital.) This one is pretty nice compared to the others. The labor and delivery room is fairly large with all the normal, high-tech stuff. It has a huge flat screen TV that you can watch movies on, which should keep Terence happy. Unlike the Gallup hospital, which had blocked off all the individual showers (for our safety?) I'll actually be able to shower while in labor if I so desire. Plus they have a Japanese soaking tub in a nearby room, which basically looked like a large sunken tub, with a spout for water to come out of the ceiling. Our guide let us know that our labor coach is welcome to bring swim trunks and join us in the tub, which sounded hilariously funny to me. "Hey, honey, how about a romantic escape to the hot tub?" Just my kind of language when I'm in labor. Terence thought since it was a Japanese soaking tub there should be old Japanese men slapping us with wet towels. Umm, sure, Terence-- you first!!!
They have a little outdoor relaxation garden that is for OB patients and family only, something I've never seen before. You can walk there when you're in labor or bring the baby out there after the birth. There's a little playground for the baby's siblings too. Thank goodness I'm due in January! I don't think it would be much fun in 110 degree weather.
My favorite part is that this hospital has room service for the moms!!! Yep, there is a full restaurant-style color menu that I can choose what I want and order it using my TV. Best of all, the food can come any time, not just at hospital meal times. Hooray for people who figured out that new moms might get hungry on an off schedule (seeing as labor and newborns are not predictable!)
On a side note, the kids I already have here are determined to reinforce the unpredictable part of life. (Although, in a way, my kids are getting so predictable when it comes to destruction.) The other night B raided my bathroom cabinet and came out with bright pink nail polish. She brought it to me and asked to have her nails painted. I told her that she could later and took away the nail polish. I don't exactly know where my brain was at the time because I'm not sure what I then did with the polish.
Ten minutes later, B appeared at my side, waving her pretty new fingers, painted pink all by herself! (She was so proud, and I was so horrified.) Once again, I plucked away the nail polish, and brain fade kicks in because I thought I put it in my pocket. Yet at bedtime, I was escorting J to his room only to find that he had somehow come upon the nail polish. On the wall next to his door is an old piece of artwork created by M in permanent marker. Only now it had bright pink nail polish coloring it in. And yikes!!! The door jamb had also been painted with bright pink nail polish. (J denied, but the pink nail polish on his feet gave him away.)
This one is a new one for me. Does anyone have any idea how to get nail polish off the wall?????
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(Oh, and fancy hospital!)