Well, I had an amazing homebirth on Monday, but I did have a lot of bleeding and had to be on methergine for the week. I went off of it on Friday night and started bleeding a lot with clots, so my midwife told me to go to the hospital to rule out postpartum hemmorage and placenta fragments. Well, we arrive at the local hospitals Labor and Delivery unit (they nicely accepted us, despite us not delivering there), but when they came out to get us from the front desk, the nurse said, "do you have a baby carrier?" And I was like, umm, our arms??" And she explained that the hospital has a rule that new parents cannot carry their newborns in their arms, they have to have them in a carseat (bucket style). So we were like, well we don't have that kind of carseat, we have a britax convertible type. She just stared at us, like a deer in headlights. Apparently they have NEVER had this happen before, so she very reluctantly agreed to "allow" my husband to carry the baby into the labor and delivery unit. Once we got into the room, she demanded that my husband hand her the baby so that he could sit down in a chair and have the baby handed back to him. My husband became somewhat confrontational and I apologized (only because I was worried about starting off on the wrong foot) by saying, "we're just not accustom to all of the rules." To which she replied, "I guess that's why you had a homebirth." And I cracked up and said, "yeah, that's for sure!" It actually ended up being a great experience to be there, because it really made us realize how blessed we are to have our baby at home. I just can't believe all of the crazy rules and madness that goes on there. Hooray for homebirth!
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