Bassinet valued in days of COVID 19
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My baby boy was born April 19th, 2020, just as the Covid-19 safety precautions were getting stricter in Medicine Hat. Family wasn’t allowed to visit us at the hospital – only my husband could come with me. This was especially hard for me because my parents were unable to be in Medicine Hat. They’re all the way on the East coast in the United States and the border was closed just before they were due to fly out here.
The labor and delivery staff worked tirelessly to make us feel like everything was normal despite there only being a handful of them on shift due to restrictions. My one request was to have an epidural for my delivery. The anesthesiologist was in a surgery elsewhere in the hospital and I was worried there wouldn’t be enough time to have one. It was literally crunch time, but the nurse who had greeted us and got us settled into a delivery room was determined to make sure the epidural happened. It did and it was great.
After my son was born, they checked in on us regularly and answered any questions we had all through the night. There was an instance I’ll always remember where I paged the nurse around midnight to ask if there was any way I could have a snack. She told me under normal circumstances there was but that there weren’t any kitchen staff at night with the pandemic happening. I was resigning to just being hungry when the nurse I had spoken to appeared a little while later. She’d taken the time to find snacks for me when there wasn’t anything readily available. This same nurse made time in her schedule later that night to take care of my baby for a few hours because I hadn’t slept in 2 days. She went above and beyond to make me feel taken care of and that I wasn’t just “another new mom.”
