I am one VERY UNHAPPY pregnant woman right now!!

[Lance06]

Okay ladies. I just got to work after going to my 24 week appt. What I found out today has made me very upset and I am not sure how I am going to handle it.

First off, I have gained a total of 13 pounds total this pregnancy. Which is good......and she told me to just be careful around the holidays (yea, like thats going to happen!)

Anyways, the part I am so unhappy about is the new hospital policy having to do with the whole swine flu pandemic. Where I will be delivering they have a separate part of the hopsital called the snuggery, which is awesome. Well, probably until about April (when flu season will end) they are not allowing anyone under the age of 18 in to see mom's or babies (I guess it was 13 and they just changed it, which i wasnt aware of the rule at all until today).

This means that my daughter (who will be 1 then) will not be able to see my during my entire hospital stay. We are talking 3-4 days (cesarean). This is not okay with me. I understand that they are just being precautious with everything going on but I have not been away from Sarah more than 8 hours for daycare some days while I am at work, this is going to break my heart. I wanted Sarah and my DH to be the first one's to see the baby when she is born, and this is not going to be able to happen and it hurts so much. I left the doctors office crying today bc I was so upset about this.

I hope no one else has to deal with this, as much as its a good thing that they are looking out for us and our newborns...it breaks my heart to know I will be away from her for that long!

[LittlePickle]

I don't have a kid so that rule doesn't affect me, but our hospital is also limiting the visitors to two....total.  Not two at a time, but two total.  You get to list two individuals that get to visit you during your whole stay and that is it....they can't rotate the two visitors through six different family member like in the past.  This change is all because of the H1N1.  This isn't that big of a problem for us since our entire families live on the east coast and we live in California, but I was having like 3-4 people fly out to see me, now they can't see me until I leave the hospital.   There were a few people in my birth class that were really upset when we found out about this last night.

[Quinns momma]

LOL, I agree with you 100%... :)

[Lance06]

Its just one of those days I tell ya....Its going to be a long one!! I need a nap and I need all of this swine flu garbage to GO AWAY for good.

[Quinns momma]

I posted on your journal... :)