To throw my hospital bed neighbour’s phone out the window

Hope you're sorted now, OP. Sleep well & congratulations 👩‍🍼🩵🩷

They are very self important people, absolutely full of themselves

I had this exact scenario on labour ward I spoke nicely to the midwife’s and I got put in a private room. Good luck the phone notifications are the worst sound when your sleep deprived!

You can’t do this anymore in my hospital

You shouldn’t need to put up with this. She wouldn’t have got 10 min into her conversation and I would have said to her or spoke straight away to the nurses. No bloody way, just rude

@AgileGreenSeal
I've been known to tell staff to keep the noise levels down too.
These ladies need to rest when they can. Sleep deprivation is a form of torture and nobody should have to put up with this 24/7 phone culture.
I'm getting on a bit now so not on any SM apart from MN but over the past 30 + years it has changed beyond all recognition.

Post natal wards are awful. With dc1 I had the misfortune of being in a bay next to a couple , the man was the loudest snorer ever. He also ate soup one night clanging the spoon on the bowl and slurping like he was a drain. I was fuming. With dc2 I was opposite a woman who repeated about 76355 times that she had waited 15 years to have her baby and so she had practiced lullabies . She sang them all
through the night and she had be loudest and worst voice I’ve ever heard it was as if she was possessed by a cat/windchime/banshee hybrid that was off key and had a nasal quality. I honestly thought I’d combust and was trying to be kind as she had obviously had a bad time . I was relieved when the woman next to her shouted at 330am ‘for FUCKS sake - we need to FUCKING sleep. STOP FUCKING SINGING’

So we can all hear how important they are. Or they have drama.
Or the brain sizzling from a moblie theory?.
Ask for it to be used with headphones or off speaker the inconsiderate person. Or throw it!

I have started working in a hospital and visit many wards. Patients playing music or TV through their devices with no headphones seems quite common now, as it does on public transport. And no, the staff do not seem to ask patients to be more considerate, or if they do, they are ignored. It's completely unacceptable and stressful for those trying to recover.

Yep,had one in the next bed to me after surgery, she was late 70’s, notifications not on silent, receiving texts all night into the early hours. Beep beep and phone would light up the ward like a Christmas tree. Who would be texting someone in their late 70’s at 2am in the morning? Plus she had the worst smokers cough too……

I had all homebirths thankfully but tales like these were one of the reasons I wanted them!

Well done you! Pity there aren’t more like you because it’s without a doubt one of the most depressing, soul-destroying aspects of giving birth in an NHS hospital.

I’ve seen women desperate to get some quiet and just shut their eyes and all the time the racket is unbelievable and it’s bad enough when it’s other patients and their visitors but inexcusable when it’s actual staff who are so inconsiderate about the noise they’re making.

London midwives aren’t known for their charm.

Find the nearest ‘brisk’ one and tell her to shut Miss Scream up.

Lie back, secure in the hope that the baby screams nonstop for 2 years.

OP you have my sympathy.
I remember this from when I gave birth to DS who is now 25!
the bloody woman in the bed opposite called all her friends to ask their views on her DD’s name.
so indelibly etched in
my memory I googled the name which was a bit unusual a few months ago and found the girl on social media.

I had my last baby over 25 years ago and there was a lot of noise at night on the post-natal ward, albeit almost all unavoidable (midwife checks done quietly, help for the woman who'd had a section, babies crying), but nothing like this new hell.

Surely they should just have rules: all phones etc to be used with earphones, max 2 visitors with limited visiting hours and no calls between 9pm and 7am because new mothers all need rest and quiet.

You've rekindled bad memories for me. I'm going back 29 years, well before most people had a mobile phone. In hospital in well rough area of Manchester with precious first born. The woman in the bed was unable to walk, I think due to an epidural.
Well, she spent the whole night effing and blinding at the top of her voice.....Bring me a f cigarette you f b. All night. No-one brought the cigarettes and no-one attempted to shut her up. Nightmare.

Not everyone can do this, you realise?

OK for what it's worth I don't cackle down corridors or go about banging doors and I do permanent nights for over 20 years now.
I often ask ladies to turn their phone convos down their music/videos off in the middle of the night as others are trying to sleep.
Patients in hospital often have no respect for others around them. I'm including the fathers in that scenario too.

My neighbor was like this too, by the time she left (two nights) I pretty much knew a lot about her life and the people in it. Knew where she lived, where her husband was originally from, what she thought about her mil (once he had left) and literally all sorts. She also kept calling her newborn 'little pwincess' which set my teeth on edge. I hate confrontation so I quietly seethed but wish I had spoken to the midwives to tell her to pack it in.

Can relate. With my 1st, there was this crazy that had to sleep with the TV on booming all night. She had numerous loud visitors and loud phone conversations. It was BAD! I hope you go home soon!

Ask her if she forgot her earphones...

Why does the OP have to ask a midwife to intervene though? Don’t midwives have ears themselves? Surely they can hear this? Or are they too busy cackling at each other down the corridors and banging doors in the middle of the night?
OP these wards are absolutely awful. It’s the worst and most disgraceful part of NHS maternity ‘care’.

I'm in UK was RGN prior to training for midwifery. All our students are on uni degree pathway for midwifery only.

This is me so I never take offence but thank you for thinking of us ☺️ If someone is rude or unpleasant about it i just say "Sorry I'm quite deaf and didnt realise" with a smile they generally are a bit politer then. When on phones and need to volume up I use headphones, basic curtesy. Midwives nurses etc. Never mind waiting the few seconds it takes for my hearing aids to kick in when I take them out. If someone points out I'm being loud then it's taken at face value and an effort is made to to quieter. I had similar issue with a woman in the word while we were in labour. My mother and sisters really didn't need to hear all about her labour induction etc. But they did anyway even my headphones were picking bits up 🙈
I wasn't too bothered, just turned her off but am aware myself not everyone has that luxury 🤣

Another midwife here and yes absolutely tell the staff. I have no problems telling others to lower the volume or take the conversation out of the bay area so you are not disturbed.
Other peoples lack of awareness never fails to amaze me.