my first guess was that's when the paperwork for the night shift is done :)
Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)
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Re: Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)
#22Cos new nurse teams arrive with coffee in blood. Seen it.
Re: Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)
#23Tl;Dr: ~30% of births are C-section, and hospitals prefer early morning operations.
And from anecdote, so should mothers. Early morning (~8AM) you get the A staff at their prime and are often the first case so it is usually timely. The worst time is 6:30AM (or whenever half an hour before changeover is). You either get C staff and/or people who have been awake for 24 hours. The surgeon probably called that time so they could book night rates.
Additionally, you're not supposed to eat before a C-section.
If you have yours at 8am, then your last meal was dinner, maybe 12-13 hours ago. If you have yours at 4pm, then you might not have eaten for 20 hours.
Re: Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)
#24Also related and shown in the diagrams in the linked article, why are so many babies born on Friday, and less on Saturday? Doctors/nurses want their weekends too, so inducements / c-sections also go up on Fridays. Says the dad of the child born at 4pm on a Friday...
An unfortunate side effect of the US hospital business is that you have a large number of customers and have to push people through the system as quickly as you can. That's probably why there has been such an increase in birth centers for mothers who want the time to go through labor naturally.
Nah, in completely socialized systems doctors and nurses also usually want to have weekends and evenings off, hospitals aren't staffed as well as during business hours, and people try to limit the workload on their colleagues remaining on duty.
Re: Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)
#25Tl;Dr: ~30% of births are C-section, and hospitals prefer early morning operations.
And from anecdote, so should mothers. Early morning (~8AM) you get the A staff at their prime and are often the first case so it is usually timely. The worst time is 6:30AM (or whenever half an hour before changeover is). You either get C staff and/or people who have been awake for 24 hours. The surgeon probably called that time so they could book night rates.
The surgeon is usually an OBGYN. At least that’s what’s most common at the hospital we had our 3 at. It was the attending OBGYN from the practice my wife goes to. They are both run by the same place.
Not sure how it works for small hospitals.
Re: Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)
#26I witnessed this phenomenon first-hand when my second child was born and during the labor, which was not exceptionally long, only 7 hours, the doctor started making "this is not progressing" noises toward 5pm and I had to sternly tell him to fuck right off. Based on a strip chart of the time between contractions the labor was clearly making normal, bordering on rapid, progress.
Doctors are pretty much dicks, and the entire American system is massively broken.
Re: Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just had baby Dr wanted to do it at 7:00 and the hospital required us to be there at 5:00am. Dr showed up half an hour late. The reason he scheduled for then was so he could still do office hours. His office closes at noon. Don't like the guy.
File a grievance with a regulatory body.
That's fucking hilarious. I filed a grievance when the medical professionals performed care on me against my (fully conscious and alert) consent, without a warrant, and without a court order nor arrest -- at the direction of a federal officer who had me "detained" but not "arrested" because there was no probable cause of a crime.
I wrote an incredibly detailed, 100 page report with several witnesses painstakingly describing the violation and details and associated license #. Included was my full medical report where licensed doctors clearly noted I had denied consent for care. Included on the report was the signed, official report showing care was rendered without consent.
After what I imagine was about 5 seconds of glancing at my report, a low IQ triage official who worked for the state board claimed anything the medical professionals do are excepted because they magically become police officers, except ones exempt to the 4th amendment, if they do anything wrong. So you can file a grievance, and an idiot from the board will probably tell you to fuck off or invent a fake rule, and there is no appeals process.
Re: Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)
#28It's all about the Benjamin's
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
File a grievance with a regulatory body.
That's fucking hilarious. I filed a grievance when the medical professionals performed care on me against my (fully conscious and alert) consent, without a warrant, and without a court order nor arrest -- at the direction of a federal officer who had me "detained" but not "arrested" because there was no probable cause of a crime. I wrote an incredibly detailed, 100 page report with several witnesses painstakingly des…
Is there a link to the 100 pages so that the rest of us can be forewarned by your testimony?
Re: Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's fucking hilarious. I filed a grievance when the medical professionals performed care on me against my (fully conscious and alert) consent, without a warrant, and without a court order nor arrest -- at the direction of a federal officer who had me "detained" but not "arrested" because there was no probable cause of a crime. I wrote an incredibly detailed, 100 page report with several witnesses painstakingly des…
Is there a link to the 100 pages so that the rest of us can be forewarned by your testimony?
Possibly, it will take me quite awhile to fully redact it of PII.