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Is there anything the family can do to be better prepared when the institution is not prepared? My wife is pregnant (high-risk) and we have been concerned since

Is there anything the family can do to be better prepared when the institution is not prepared? My wife is pregnant (high-risk) and we have been concerned since reading this article. We are in the SF Bay Area.

sjg007 9y ago
Go to UCSF or Stanford. California follows the high risk protocol. Also just ask your doctor about this.
joatmon-snoo 9y ago
Perhaps try reaching out to the reporters, or even some of the experts mentioned in the article? I've done it before and gotten responses, and in the cases of an article like this I can't imagine you'd be the only person with such questions.
robmiller 9y ago
Found this interesting comment on Reddit about "H" teams, and evidently they're at Kaiser. https://www.reddit.com/r/BabyBumps/comments/6ar5xi/trigger_this_is_scary_but_its_important_to_know/dhgtge0/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BabyBumps/comments/6ar5xi/trigger_t...
tathougies 9y ago
Do you have a doctor you can trust right now, monitoring the pregnancy? Make sure they have a plan in place for whatever may come up, and that they've shared this with the appropriate hospital. UCSF, Stanford are probably the best hospitals to be at.
JauntTrooper 9y ago
We just had our first child a few months ago. We had some pretty serious complications, but the UCSF hospital system is amazing and all is good now. We are blessed to have world class hospitals in the Bay Area. As the article says California has been proactive and countered the national trend: "By 2013, according to Main, maternal deaths in California fell to around 7 per 100,000 births, similar to the numbers in Canada, France and the Netherlands — a dramatic counter to the trends in other parts of the U.S." The major hospitals are some of the best in the state and probably contribute to those numbers, but just in case you may want to ask your OBGYN about the protocols and whether they have a hemorrhage cart or other recommended toolkits. I would also learn the symptoms of preeclampsia, and if you're ever concerned in the hospital, ask. Congratulations and best of luck!
- secabeen 9y ago
  Here's a nice article summarizing what California does right: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/29/15830970/women-health-care-maternal-mortality-rate https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/29/15830970/wo...
  - Xcelerate 9y ago
    My wife has said that if we ever end up in California, she wants to fly back the last month of pregnancy to have our child in Knoxville (she's not a big fan of California). This article presents compelling evidence that it would be much safer to stay there in fact.
femwarrior 9y ago
Can you not pick your preferred institution for giving birth? For our first child, we deliberately chose a hospital with a special children's unit attached, just in case (admittedly, we didn't think about special risks for the mother). Meanwhile, other people campaign for giving birth at home, which seems crazy to me...

sjg007 9y ago

Go to UCSF or Stanford. California follows the high risk protocol. Also just ask your doctor about this.

joatmon-snoo 9y ago

Perhaps try reaching out to the reporters, or even some of the experts mentioned in the article? I've done it before and gotten responses, and in the cases of an article like this I can't imagine you'd be the only person with such questions.

robmiller 9y ago

Found this interesting comment on Reddit about "H" teams, and evidently they're at Kaiser. https://www.reddit.com/r/BabyBumps/comments/6ar5xi/trigger_this_is_scary_but_its_important_to_know/dhgtge0/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BabyBumps/comments/6ar5xi/trigger_t...

tathougies 9y ago

Do you have a doctor you can trust right now, monitoring the pregnancy? Make sure they have a plan in place for whatever may come up, and that they've shared this with the appropriate hospital. UCSF, Stanford are probably the best hospitals to be at.

JauntTrooper 9y ago

We just had our first child a few months ago. We had some pretty serious complications, but the UCSF hospital system is amazing and all is good now. We are blessed to have world class hospitals in the Bay Area. As the article says California has been proactive and countered the national trend: "By 2013, according to Main, maternal deaths in California fell to around 7 per 100,000 births, similar to the numbers in Canada, France and the Netherlands — a dramatic counter to the trends in other parts of the U.S." The major hospitals are some of the best in the state and probably contribute to those numbers, but just in case you may want to ask your OBGYN about the protocols and whether they have a hemorrhage cart or other recommended toolkits. I would also learn the symptoms of preeclampsia, and if you're ever concerned in the hospital, ask. Congratulations and best of luck!

secabeen 9y ago
Here's a nice article summarizing what California does right: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/29/15830970/women-health-care-maternal-mortality-rate https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/29/15830970/wo...
- Xcelerate 9y ago
  My wife has said that if we ever end up in California, she wants to fly back the last month of pregnancy to have our child in Knoxville (she's not a big fan of California). This article presents compelling evidence that it would be much safer to stay there in fact.

femwarrior 9y ago

Can you not pick your preferred institution for giving birth? For our first child, we deliberately chose a hospital with a special children's unit attached, just in case (admittedly, we didn't think about special risks for the mother). Meanwhile, other people campaign for giving birth at home, which seems crazy to me...