How many of you sat in a car, outside the hospital, and waved at your Mom after she had a new baby.?

Question

I remember my Dad leaving the 4 of us in the Brown Woody Rambler, when he went to visit our Mother at the hospital. We lived in the country but she had us at a city hospital. I remember looking up about 5 or 6 stories- at her waving hand.
We did this twice.

Answer 1

That was in the days when kids were banned from visiting hospitals. In many ways it was an awful rule, since mothers with long illnesses often did not see their children for months.

But the maternity thing - well, you do sometimes wish that there was at least a little bit of "the old days" in place in hospitals! These days, not only do you have the babies in the rooms with the new mums (imagine the noise level at times !), they also have unlimited visiting. Sometimes I've been to visit and it is absolute bedlam......crying newborns, dozens of bored visiting kids running around making huge noise, plus the adult element, all shouting at each other.

Makes me wish for the "bad old days" which were no so bad after all. When I was working as a midwife, we had this wonderful thing called a "visitors bell"....the visitors would come in at 9am, and we'd ring the bell at 11am and they'd all go home. Same again in the evening - they'd come in at 6pm, and we'd ring the magic bell at 8pm and they'd all go.

The new mums would get the rest (and privacy) that they needed, and the new babies could have some good quality time with their mums without being picked up every five minutes by the latest batch of visitors. It might be scoffed ot today, by the "anything goes" people, but I really liked having a few rules and regulations in hospitals. We were more interested in the well-being of the patients, than we were about pleasing the visitors !

Answer 2

I don't remember that but I do remember walking out on the fire escape of the hospital to wave at my 2 year old son standing in the parking lot, crying for me to hold him.

I had just delivered his sister.

Children were not allowed in the hospital in 1966.

How times have changed.

Men weren't allowed to watch the delivery in those days.

Answer 3

That does bring back some memories (she was stuck in
the hospital for a week) Remember my aunt smuggling
some fried chicken into the hospital cause mom couldn't
get enough to eat and wasn't too partial to hospital food.

Answer 4

My sister and I didn't get to go to the hospital. My great grandmother stayed with us and my dad came in and told us we had a little brother. We could hardly wait for mom to bring the baby home to us.

Answer 5

Lovely story. I remember sitting in the car waiting for my dad and a drunk lady came and sat in the car with us (there were 4 of us waiting.) I remember my dad coming out and taking her home or somewhere.

Answer 6

I do remember that children were not allowed to visit mom's in the hospital. But they weren't when I was having children either .And I was born in my Grandparents house.

Answer 7

I'm an only child, but my own two daughters did so when I had their brother! lol as they wouldn't allow children at the hospital

Answer 8

no,i have no brothers or sisters.i remember dad and my uncle going in the party store and getting some beer and leaving us kids in the car.

Answer 9

These days it would be considered neglect to leave your kids alone in a car. How times have changed.

Answer 10

out of all four of my brothers and sisters only once...when my second little brother was born....the rest of the other times we waited back home.