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StinaMcB
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
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Hi! I'm not here very much anymore, but I delivered with Kaiser at Good Sam and had an awesome experience. I had a doula (who I *loved*) and I would highly recommend one to anyone, especially if you want a natural birth. The docs and nurses were totally great with my birth plan, although I think having a doula definitely helped with all that too. You have to have a hep-lock, which wasn't a huge deal, just in case they need emergency access, and they had to do some external monitoring every so often. This was probably the worst part for me because they could only get the heart rate while I was laying on the bed and that was the WORST position for me to labor in (lots of pain, relatively speaking). That's where the doula was amazing because she was able to do some hypnosis stuff to get me through transition without meds. They did break my water, but everyone agreed it was pretty low-risk intervention and helped speed labor up when it was stalling a bit.
I never had any kind of pressure AT ALL to induce, use meds, have a c-section or anything other than breaking the water and I labored at the hospital from 8 AM until DD was born at 1 AM the next morning. The nurses more or less left us and the doula alone, which was pretty great. The nurses did say afterward that they happened to be pretty busy that night and normally like to spend more time with the moms doing a natural birth.
I had talked with my OB ahead of time and he said there wasn't a lot of scientific evidence to delay cord cutting (I know this is not what a lot of natural birth stuff says, but I trust him, so it was right for us). He also said that most of the Kaiser OBs were pretty in line with him as far as views on labor/delivery/intervention, so I felt comfortable with that (he happened to be the one to deliver our baby which was AMAZING). He even let DH catch DD!
The hospital is SUPER breastfeeding friendly and I thought all of our nurses were very supportive and informative. They even encouraged co-sleeping and showed me how to do side-lying nursing, which totally saved my sanity. The initial bath, weighing, all that is delayed until after the first nursing session, which is great. You get about an hour or so after delivery in the delivery room before you go to the postpartum room. They also play a sweet little lullaby as you go from delivery to your room, so anytime you are at the hospital and hear it, that means another baby has been born!