Should there snoring and non-snoring wards in hospitals?

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Lighthearted (kind of) but was admitted to maternity ward last night. Exhausted but couldn't sleep due to extremely loud snorers on either side of me. Can't sleep during the day as she is STILL snoring now.

I find snorers fall asleep quickly so why not lump them together in one ward?

Arghhh I'm at the end of my tether and ready to throw something.

As a snorer, being admitted for an overnight hospital stay (or longer) is one of my fears!

I recently had oral surgery, and the consultant said I would likely be kept in overnight. I went home and purchased 20 pairs of earplugs for my fellow patients 😁!

As it happened, I was discharged on the same day, so I managed to avoid annoying anyone. However, I have the earplugs here if needed in the future.

Am guessing TW!

South wales! Both our urgent care and A&E hospitals are like this, but they are quite new hospitals not sure what the situation is with the older ones in the surrounding areas

That can actually lead to quite bad problems with loneliness, isolation and delirium in hospitals.

I’m currently on a children’s ward. I don’t think a single person here slept well last night. Two mothers were snoring, one was sending voice notes rather than texting. My child was awake for several hours crying in pain whilst they tried to sort out her medication, she finally settled and another little one woke up…..

Your theory that snorers fall asleep quickly is fundamentally flawed.

the solution is single rooms. Better for rest, infection control, and patient privacy. Wards are ridiculously antiquated.

Try being married to one. It's awful! Love him but wow!

YABU. Nobody ever gets proper rest in hospital.

I took a pillow and a blanket and bedded down for the night in the day room once, the snoring was so bad on my ward. The nurses didn't blame me!

I honestly think ive started to snore but as I'm the last one asleep the kids cant tell me but my cat certainly does he nudges me and shoves my head around if it falls forward again he does it again 😂 i must be annoying him

Worst night ever after giving birth and the woman next to be snoring.

At least when it's your partner you can nudge/hit them.

they often provide ear plugs

When I had my second DD, I didn’t sleep AT ALL that night due to constant noise. It was horrendous. Coming home with a newborn and being woken every 2 hours honestly felt luxurious in comparison. 😂

I have. Mind I paid for a separate room with its own bathroom after having my second having struggled to sleep with my first and struggled to walk to get to the public loo.

With my third I asked about it and the nurse looked at me funny and didn’t tell me if they had private rooms with loos. I looked online beforehand and they said they had them and all you had to do was ask about them. I was lucky that it had been just me despite being in a very busy hospital, regretted not staying longer because definitely didn’t get rest when I got home.

First night on an antenatal ward, and the (very nice) woman in the bed opposite snored like a hippo all night. The next day her husband arrived to visit, and she told him she'd 'not slept a wink all night.'

I got out of bed and beat her around her stupid snorey head with a cardboard bed pan until she had no working sinuses left. In my imagination obviously 😬

I had my second child at home rather than go to hospital. First child I discharged myself rather than stay in an overcrowded ward with snoring mums , mums in distress and crying babies including mine .
Any other admissions I used my insurance to get a seperate room if possible.

Not just hospitals. They should segregate snorers and non-snorers on dating apps so you only meet your own kind.

I was and still am a snorer but during my admission to maternity for pre-eclampsia with my first baby it reached horrific levels. The first morning I could hear the other women in the bay complaining. There was an empty side room, I was not allowed to use it during the day, but each night my bed was wheeled in so that everyone could get some sleep. Apparently the nurses could still hear me on the corridor.

Absolutely agree. When I had my twins and had pre-eclampsia the checks weren't at all coordinated so they were in checking on of us almosy every hour, and then I was feeding two babies on a three-hour schedule as well. And then the nurses kept telling me to 'get some sleep' completely unironically. Like, I would, but someone interrupts me every twenty minutes. By day five I was bordering on collapse. It was the worst experience of my life.

OP I really sympathise. The night my baby was born I was in a two person ward and the woman snored all night. She also slept so deeply that she didn't wake when her baby was crying and I had to call the nurse. This happened several times over the night. I don't know what happened when she went home, hopefully she had a partner who would wake up when the baby cried. Even though I know it wasn't deliberate on her part and she couldn't help it the next morning when she said good morning to me I told her it wasn't a good morning I hadn't slept a wink all night and I hoped either me or her got discharged that day because I couldn't share with her for another night. This type of directness is not like me but I was irrational with exhaustion. The nurses took pity on me and found me a beautiful private room that morning. I really hope you get some sleep tonight!

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