Britney Spears is starting down the mainstream road. - Page 3

[Momtwice]

Originally Posted by DaryLLL

This could just be a plant to throw us off the scent.

I like your theory even better than my thought...which is, how seriously should we take this when the source is Star magazine? :LOL

[majazama]

Originally Posted by mamajama

When I saw the title "Britney Spears is starting down the mainstream road" my first thought was "*Starting down* the mainstream road?? I thought she was already so far down that road that she's hired a team of landscapers to manicure it in her wake and line it with plastic plants".

Exactly what I was going to say. :LOL

[MamaBug]

OT but yes the formula is pre packaged, they just twist on a new nipple every time, alot of waste but no bottle washing for nurses.

I agree that if the rooms were all connected and she wanted to make the three one big room, well whatever but fine. However these rooms don't do that and essentially she is just taking the space away from another patient. If these rooms are not big enough why not just go to Cedars Sinai I hear they have an amazing HUGE L/D suite for celebrities and the rich, where champagne and lobster is served~

[Changed]

I guess if the hospital is willing to accept the money for 3 rooms they ought to give them to her. It's her money and the hospital is a business. If other mothers need a room, they will probably fine them one or they will rediscuss the situation. I can understand that it would be nerve wracking to be such a spectacle. Celeb or not, she's not getting any of this unless the hospital agrees to it.

BTW, nurses are certainly in the business of service. Any nurse who pretends that patients are at her mercy better have their head checked. They are empolyed by the hospital who provides a service as well. Unless you work at a free hospital then you are working for each paying patient. (disclaimer: not directed at anyone in particular)

[MamaBug]

While it is the hospitals right to give her 3 rooms, there will be no way or time to rediscuss it once she is in labor and they need either of the extra rooms for someone else who is also in labor. They can predict all they want about how busy they will be then, but you never know how many ppl can go into labor at any one time.

[Plady]

Since when was it mainstream to have a whole wing to yourself at a hospital?

[Changed]

not sure. i've never had that with any of my 3 hospital births! i'd say that's far from ordinary.

[JesiLynne]

Originally Posted by mama ganoush

am i the only person that couldn't care less how and where she gives birth? She's a singer, right?

Thats what they keep trying to tell us! :LOL

[CookieMonsterMommy]

Originally Posted by my~hearts~light

BTW, nurses are certainly in the business of service. Any nurse who pretends that patients are at her mercy better have their head checked. They are empolyed by the hospital who provides a service as well. Unless you work at a free hospital then you are working for each paying patient. (disclaimer: not directed at anyone in particular)

FTR, I know you said this wasn't directed at anyone specific....BUT No one ever said nurses were not in the business of service. i did say that I don't get paid, nor would I agree to decorating celebrities 3 L&D rooms. Yes, the patients insurance and private pays fund the hospital, but we are in fact employees of the hospital in that we must keep the needs of the hospital and of the other patients at the top at all times (yes, we are individual patient advocates, but I wouldn't very well advocate that she be given 3 rooms just because she wants them while others will be given crappier rooms. i said before that the substitute rooms given to laboring women are worse than sub par, they are a potential liability and a risk. it's not like they just get a "different" room...it is separate, but far from equal.).

What I mean is, take into consideration a hospital employed doula--not many would consider hiring one. Yes, you'd get labor support, but who trains them? Who signs their paycheck? Who makes sure they don't step out of line? Who tells them what they can and can't offer? the HOSPITAL. A private doula is an employee of the client/patient. That is the sense in which I meant it.

kelly

ETA: I personally place full blame on the hospital, not on Ms. Spears. I don't blame her at all for wanting things her way. the hospital shouldn't be sacraficing other patients safety and comfort in order to please a celeb.

[Soxfan Mom]

Does the father of her child make anyone else's skin crawl? I wonder if she wishes that she waited out the Pitt-Aniston marriage.

He seems like just the type of slimebucket that will convince her to schedule a section so that she stays the same "down there," and I'll bet he certainly wouldn't want a baby sharing her breasts with him.

[blessedwithboys]

i only read the first page, so someone may have already said this, but...at least she's planning to labor, and not going straight for the OR.

[Changed]

good point blessedwithboys! Isn't it sad that THAT is a valid point?

[Soxfan Mom]

Touche. "Federline, Yo!" still creeps me out, though. Those "Pimps" robes for all of the groomsmen -- and his equally yucky father! -- sealed the deal.

[MamaBug]

: I think he is the picture you see under the word GROSS in the dictionary. Don't really understand it, but then again beauty IS in the eye of the beholder and we have no idea how he is with her, just that he dumped his 5 months pg girlfriend to hook up with a celebrity :

[Openskyheart]

I think the assumption that "hospital birth" means inadequate beginning to motherhood is what is really bothering me with this thread.

I attended two homebirths which were such beautiful experiences. Unfortunately, the mom who had them turned out to be a pretty neglectful, selfish, crappy mom (who knew?), and her teenaged kids barely speak to her. She was totally AP, but as it has turned out, I think her APness was more for show and to fit in with her crowd than having to do with any real connection she feels to her children. Home birth doesn't necessarily = great parent.

I had hospital births, and was conflicted about it at the time. Now that my kids are close to 9 and 11 years of age, and are great kids, what does it really matter? I did have a birth plan, I didn't use meds, etc., but people I love and respect very much did use meds, and they have great kids, and great relationships with their kids.

As far as Britney's decisions: It doesn't surprise me one bit that she's asking for special treatment. She's been getting special treatment most of her life, and that's the world she inhabits. Her life isn't anything remotely like most of ours. She's probably not even thinking about other mothers coming to the hospital and needing birthing rooms. Hell - the guy she ended up marrying *left his pregnant girlfriend of four years* with whom he already had a toddler to hook up with Britney. Britney doesn't seem to care much about other women, children, and their needs. KWIM? (Not to mention her husband. : ).

Laura

[MamaBug]

I think the issue with the rooms falls mainly on the hospital I think it would be unfair of them to give 3 rooms to one mother just because of who she is, kwim?

I do agree that of course she asked for these things because that is the world she is used to. And I am sure he is just loving living the high life now!