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[ocelot]

Two more things I meant to add...

Note to self: watermelon makes Leif wet the bed. This is something he rarely does, and mainly only when he is sick. He ate a ton of watermelon last night, and peed not once, but twice. This isn't an isolated occurance - it's happened other times we've eaten watermelon.

I think the on downside to having a kid stay dry through the night from a young age (4 months!) is that he never learned to deal with needing to go in the middle of the night.

I ran into my midwife (well, sorta - an OB attended me during labor, and neither of them was there for the birth, but she did all the postpartum care. I've also worked with her frequently as a doula) yesterday. She's apparently gone over to the dark side, aka. Woodland Hospital, which has recruited a bunch of awsome midwives away from Sutter over the past year or so. Apparently Sutter is understaffed and Woodland offers a better working environment.

This makes me sad. I have a lot of affection for Sutter, and Woodland seems less natural birth friendly, though that may not be true with all the cool midwives they now have.

I believe Sutter is the default for the county low income population due to it's affiliation with the community clinic (in addition to having a good reputation with natural birthers), and I wonder if this is related to the problems they're having. I can see that leading to increased demand and lower funding.

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[rubbrduckage.livejournal.com]

I've often wondered about the differences between Sutter and Woodland. I had heard of Sutter's great reputation long before I ever had a kid, but I wouldn't say my experience with them lives up to that. After talking with numerous other moms of kids the same age, I've heard a number of similar stories. When I was a patient in the clinic, the wait times to be seen and on the phone were pretty high and their response time to calls and the advice nurse were atrocious. I had zero complaints about the caregivers, but it seemed like they had WAY too many patients for their staff/facility. This was reinforced when I delivered my son - I had to wait 7 hours for anti-nausea medication and was left to throw up in the bed without a pan because there weren't enough nurses and practitioners to keep up with everyone who was there. I think their philosophies are great, they just don't have the resources to back it up, sadly. Woodland, on the other hand, has tubs in every room, and I've heard a number of my favorite midwives have moved over there, but I'm not sure I could get behind their Catholic Healthcare philosophies. I don't know a whole lot of people who have delivered there, but I wish I knew more than rumors about each place. I'm definitely interested in your insider's perspective on both places.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, while overall I have no argument with how things went, I didn't get my antibiotics for hours after I got there. Given the length of time my water had been broken at that point, that really should have happened first thing, and we probably would have been released earlier if it had (though U I suppose that's also my fault for waiting that long).

The only thing I know about Woodland, except that they have cool midwives, is that they don't allow waterbirths. I have a friend who delivered there recently, but she got there so late in labor that she couldn't really saw anything about the care.

But I'll definitely be looking into them more if we have another kid in this area and want a hospital birth.