Hospital birth questions

rubyroselee · May 1, 2008

Wow, sounds like there's a bit of conflicting things based on what you guys said. Some of you were lucky enough to be in the same hospital as your CF admissions, so you knew they would have everything there you'd need while others didn't even bother to let the staff know of your CF meds/therapies. I think that's the route I will take. The hospital I am going to does have inpatient CF care (less than 50 CF patients that go there for care). A very small number of CFers in my opinion. I don't want to have to deal with the problems that come along with them not bringing meds on time, etc. I doubt I'll actually be doing CPT (I use the Flutter) during my stay, especially if I have a vaginal birth, because I skip it from time to time when I'm busy, on vacation, etc. If I have a c-section it might be a different story though because I'll want to keep my lungs clear to avoid pneumonia...although they'll end up giving me one of those incentive spirometers, so I might just use that instead! If my OB brings up my CF meds/treatments to me before the delivery then we'll discuss it, otherwise I think I'm just going to keep it on the DL that I'm bringing all my stuff in.

Thanks everyone!

rubyroselee · May 1, 2008

Wow, sounds like there's a bit of conflicting things based on what you guys said. Some of you were lucky enough to be in the same hospital as your CF admissions, so you knew they would have everything there you'd need while others didn't even bother to let the staff know of your CF meds/therapies. I think that's the route I will take. The hospital I am going to does have inpatient CF care (less than 50 CF patients that go there for care). A very small number of CFers in my opinion. I don't want to have to deal with the problems that come along with them not bringing meds on time, etc. I doubt I'll actually be doing CPT (I use the Flutter) during my stay, especially if I have a vaginal birth, because I skip it from time to time when I'm busy, on vacation, etc. If I have a c-section it might be a different story though because I'll want to keep my lungs clear to avoid pneumonia...although they'll end up giving me one of those incentive spirometers, so I might just use that instead! If my OB brings up my CF meds/treatments to me before the delivery then we'll discuss it, otherwise I think I'm just going to keep it on the DL that I'm bringing all my stuff in.

Thanks everyone!

rubyroselee · May 1, 2008

Wow, sounds like there's a bit of conflicting things based on what you guys said. Some of you were lucky enough to be in the same hospital as your CF admissions, so you knew they would have everything there you'd need while others didn't even bother to let the staff know of your CF meds/therapies. I think that's the route I will take. The hospital I am going to does have inpatient CF care (less than 50 CF patients that go there for care). A very small number of CFers in my opinion. I don't want to have to deal with the problems that come along with them not bringing meds on time, etc. I doubt I'll actually be doing CPT (I use the Flutter) during my stay, especially if I have a vaginal birth, because I skip it from time to time when I'm busy, on vacation, etc. If I have a c-section it might be a different story though because I'll want to keep my lungs clear to avoid pneumonia...although they'll end up giving me one of those incentive spirometers, so I might just use that instead! If my OB brings up my CF meds/treatments to me before the delivery then we'll discuss it, otherwise I think I'm just going to keep it on the DL that I'm bringing all my stuff in.

Thanks everyone!

rubyroselee · May 1, 2008

Wow, sounds like there's a bit of conflicting things based on what you guys said. Some of you were lucky enough to be in the same hospital as your CF admissions, so you knew they would have everything there you'd need while others didn't even bother to let the staff know of your CF meds/therapies. I think that's the route I will take. The hospital I am going to does have inpatient CF care (less than 50 CF patients that go there for care). A very small number of CFers in my opinion. I don't want to have to deal with the problems that come along with them not bringing meds on time, etc. I doubt I'll actually be doing CPT (I use the Flutter) during my stay, especially if I have a vaginal birth, because I skip it from time to time when I'm busy, on vacation, etc. If I have a c-section it might be a different story though because I'll want to keep my lungs clear to avoid pneumonia...although they'll end up giving me one of those incentive spirometers, so I might just use that instead! If my OB brings up my CF meds/treatments to me before the delivery then we'll discuss it, otherwise I think I'm just going to keep it on the DL that I'm bringing all my stuff in.

Thanks everyone!

rubyroselee · May 1, 2008

Wow, sounds like there's a bit of conflicting things based on what you guys said. Some of you were lucky enough to be in the same hospital as your CF admissions, so you knew they would have everything there you'd need while others didn't even bother to let the staff know of your CF meds/therapies. I think that's the route I will take. The hospital I am going to does have inpatient CF care (less than 50 CF patients that go there for care). A very small number of CFers in my opinion. I don't want to have to deal with the problems that come along with them not bringing meds on time, etc. I doubt I'll actually be doing CPT (I use the Flutter) during my stay, especially if I have a vaginal birth, because I skip it from time to time when I'm busy, on vacation, etc. If I have a c-section it might be a different story though because I'll want to keep my lungs clear to avoid pneumonia...although they'll end up giving me one of those incentive spirometers, so I might just use that instead! If my OB brings up my CF meds/treatments to me before the delivery then we'll discuss it, otherwise I think I'm just going to keep it on the DL that I'm bringing all my stuff in.
 
 Thanks everyone!

hopesiris · May 1, 2008