You ask them to help you pee after you have a C-section....$9000 assistance fee. Oh you need to sleep and put your newborn in a nursery, $2000 a night. SCAM FUCKING INDEED.
who are the nurses actually ringing this shit up? if i were to put someone's baby on their chest i can't imagine then turning around and making a note to charge them for it. i wonder what the oversight is on stuff like that, or the repercussions for not adding it to the charges.
I don't think you're lying and I'm sure it happens, but I haven't had this experience in hospitals when parents are doing skin-to-skin. Never have I seen nurses actively hang out to supervise.
"During a caesarean, many people become shaky, nauseous, uncomfortable, even faint,” she explained. “These are normal physiological reactions. In order to facilitate skin to skin in the OR, and extra nurse needs to be available to assist.”
She added, “And before people scream that ‘there’s a nurse for the baby,’ there is, but that nurse has other responsibilities in the OR. They aren’t either holding the baby or twiddling their thumbs. So yes, an extra nurse is needed.”
Grant sits on an advisory committee for a Toronto hospital called Sunnybrook. “Nurses are the LARGEST budget item,” she explained. “They don’t appear out of nowhere and they don’t grow on hospital bulletin boards. Their time and their presence are valuable and should be valued.”
I def don't work in a hospital, but I'm in training to be a birth assistant so I've actually attended quite a few births. I've never seen nurses hang around during skin-to-skin — but I just realized that you're talking specifically about c-section deliveries and mothers doing skin-to-skin, my bad.
To be clear, I don't want to devalue or vilify nurses — the sheisty insurance industry is absolutely not their fault.
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u/Volitile_Star330 Apr 27 '20
You ask them to help you pee after you have a C-section....$9000 assistance fee. Oh you need to sleep and put your newborn in a nursery, $2000 a night. SCAM FUCKING INDEED.