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mears is looking for info

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mears · 14/10/2006 13:05

www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=2330&threadid=227170

looking at safety of babies is hospital beds when feeding - did you have cotsides/bedguards or nothing?

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Donbean · 14/10/2006 15:45

All beds at my hospial are electric, with four sets of sides with electric controls on them.
Safe as houses and bloody great after a section to sit you up/lower you down without having to use your abdominals.

corblimeymadam · 14/10/2006 17:58

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Gingerbear · 14/10/2006 18:03

Nothing, and the beds were very high. I found it difficult to get in and out of bed after c-section.

PinkTulips · 14/10/2006 18:04

beds ha raisable sides in my hospital and the nurse padded it with a pillow too to make sure they didn't bump their heads.

this is in ireland though

edam · 14/10/2006 18:06

No bed guards at the midwife-led birth centre at St Thomas's in London.

taMummy · 14/10/2006 18:07

We had toddler bedguard things at the Simpso- the padded brightly coloured ones. Worked well but I don't know if they'd be officially approved nowadays.

Jimjams2 · 14/10/2006 18:09

NOne

One hopsital encouraged you to have your baby in bed to feed (tucked us up straight after a section at midnight- next to the wall though). The other hospital freaked (although let me carry on- just had to 'warn" me it wasn;t hospital policy), but were really big on taking the babies temperature and stripping them off and outting them down your nighty if they got cold!

Greensleeves · 14/10/2006 18:10

No bedguards at the Royal Devon and Exeter.

SpookyMadMummy · 14/10/2006 18:33

had toddler bed guards at Rotherham District General

Dottydot · 14/10/2006 19:53

none at St Mary's Manchester - and I really wish there had been as I'd had a c section so felt unable to move too much and once ds2 was plonked on me there was nowhere to put him! I'd try to get him and me comfortable but it was really hard not being able to put him on my tummy, or at either side of a narrow bed with no sides on - he's 2.5 now and I still remember it really clearly. Also remember waking up on the 2nd morning with him sleeping on my chest - the first few hours sleep I'd had in days (28 hour labour!) and it was wonderful having him sleeping there - but scary that he could have fallen off (or I felt he could) and I couldn't really move much or reach his cot - which seemed miles away at the time!

Piffle · 14/10/2006 20:00

never stayed in one long enough to find out

hermykne · 14/10/2006 20:07

i think mine did, in BT35 8QS, newry , co.down
i have photos of me in hospiatl so i'll look them up

ScreamandYellowFeathers · 14/10/2006 20:09

None at both hospitals I delivered in. That was Pontefract General and the Friarage in Northallerton.

lexiemum · 14/10/2006 20:12

tomy bedguards - the toddler bed ones from Argos offered and used with both babies (03,05)

VeniVidiVickiQV · 14/10/2006 20:15

Pasted this on the other thread.

None. No suggestions or offerings of them, only that you be careful if you feed in bed. Bed had to be very high due to SPD.

No chance of me falling asleep anyway - DS screamed every 25 minutes for the first 48 hours.

Everything surrounding labour, childbirth and postnatal care failed miserably at Chase Farm Hospital, IMO. Had DS there 18 months ago now. Had DD there 3.5 years ago. There is currently a campaign to not slimline major services and move them to another hospital going on over there atm, but I cant bring myeslf to sign the petition because I cant see how the place could get any worse . It would probably be better for folk to travel the extra 15 minutes to the better hospital.

tribpot · 14/10/2006 20:19

I was in a private room at my hospital (the West Suffolk) and desperately wanted to go home the day ds was born - he was born at 0157 so by evening time, I could see no purpose in being there. Of course, twas not permitted due to 'paperwork' so dh went home, very upset, and I was left with ds all night. He would not sleep in the plastic cot thing, so I had him in bed with me, but was terrified of him falling out, so didn't sleep a wink. Also worth noting they left me in sheets covered in blood for an entire day and night as well, that was pleasant. Being at home would have meant (a) clean sheets (b) dh and I could share the night with ds waking up and (c) a bed large enough to co-sleep without being terrified. Yay hospitals!

tribpot · 14/10/2006 20:30

Oh, I forgot to say, my cousin was in for a week after her dd was born (one of the Oxford hospitals, they are both virtually named the same so no idea which) and she had to sign a disclaimer before they would allow her to co-sleep! (As she is an eminent physician in her own right, and the daughter of even more eminent doctor parents, I'm quite surprised they gave her so much grief).

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mears · 15/10/2006 00:06

I am amazed by the lack of suitable bedguards. We use Tomy ones but they do tend to break after a period os time and frequent use. I thought I would find out great alternatives - am shocked that so many hospital use nothing.

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HRHQueenOfQuotes · 15/10/2006 00:07

didn't have bedsides or guards - but they did move the beside cabinet and cot so that DS1 was 'wedged' in and couldn't fall out (no risk of me rolling on him at that point I was still imobile from the spinal LOL).

Gillian76 · 15/10/2006 00:11

Posted on your other thread, mears. Have given birth in 3 Scottish hospitals. Not a hint of a bedguard in any of them.

Californifright · 15/10/2006 02:06

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eidsvold · 15/10/2006 07:58

I am amzed at the lack of bed guards given the reaction I got from one midwife when I had dd2 in the bed with me - post c-section exhausted from sleep deprivation caused by dd2 and the woman beside me who snored everytime she went to sleep - which was morning noon and all night.

However the beds we were in - have pull up guards and I had the guards up - no way dd2 could fall out of the bed.....

Munz · 15/10/2006 08:07

nothing, infact for fedding I was told to sit up, which I did, however I was told by a stupid woman that BF babies didn't have wind (when I asked her about 2am to try and wind the boy as he just would not settle, she told me to have him in the bed with me (no bed guards or anything single bed) and he'd be fine and sleep - ewrm he did for about half hour -- he'd been feeding every 10 minutes b4 so was sure he wasn't hungry, asked a differnt m/w to take him to the nursery so I could have an hour's sleep about 3am, she brought him back at 4 ish sound asleep where he stayed till mid day.

kando · 15/10/2006 08:20

Nothing - had 3 dds in 3 different hospitals, one of which was abroad.

coppertop · 15/10/2006 08:26

Nothing offered at all. With ds2 (3.5yrs) the MWs encouraged me to sleep for a few hours with him tucked down the front of my nightie to help warm him up. It worked but there were definitely no bedguards.