The coronavirus is causing some local hospitals to ban visitors, meaning some women are being forced to deliver babies without their partners.
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I don’t know if I can get on board with this. Husband, maybe. Siblings, absolutely not. I mean, people are dying alone, without their loved ones at their side, especially in Italy. I think a woman can suck it up and deliver a baby. She has trained medical staff at least. I just don’t know. I need to think about this a bit more.
This is interesting how this mindset factor differs in each country. This practice is not popular over here (letting strangers, including a husband, into a medical box where a baby is born). Maybe in small private clinics...
So this kind of problem would never occur in any state russian hospital, even if it's a well-equipped perinatal center where Liza had a caesarean section performed on her. She said the surgery itself was not that scary (thought it was petrifying anyway!): she didn't feel anything, though she was awake (she had epidural anesthesia only of her lower body part). But after the anesthesia weakened, everything began to hurt fiercely. She and David were placed in a big "box", where many of other women and yelling babies were staying for at least 12 hrs after their surgeries,- and only then, everyone was placed into her own room.
There were no special restrictions about visiting rules (for relatives) during the entire period she was staying there, but, of course, we were wearing blue medical clothes and plastic "bakhily" on our slippers (because dirty boots had to be taken off anyway). Liza had her own room, so Elijah could bring anything that was needed, and Liza was telling him long lists of what to bring and what to buy. Nurses were checking them, telling them what to do next and helping them very often.
In general, it was the best place to give birth at in SPb. Theoretically, there are a lot of "Roddomy" (literally: "delivery houses") in SPb (and everywhere else), but there are very few perinatal centers. If a woman or a baby have any pathologies, they are supposed to be looked after and get checked at medical centers from the very first weeks of pregnancy. Liza had some syringomyelia, plus David was in a breech position, so caesarean section was obligate in this case.
In a nutshell, having a delivery with all relatives watching (or even a husband watching) still seems something weird and inacceptable to our women.