Treated Like a Queen
The folks at Los Alamitos Medical Center are wonderful. The staff and nurses are kind and helpful. It just h
appened that when we checked in on Sunday (4/15, Noon), we (well, just Linh) were the only scheduled delivery that day (and into the next morning). In fact, there was just one other baby on the whole 2nd floor (the whole floor is the Baby Center, which makes it more secure and doesn't interfere with the other hospital operations). The next day (starting around mid-morning), there were now 11 patients on the floor. So needless to say, the whole staff had just us to tend to and while I heard stories of maybe 2-3 staff (doctor, nurse, assistant) in the room with you when the baby is born, we had about a half-dozen help. The two nurses who helped pull Linh through this ordeal (hey, I helped, too!) were Katherine and Ruby. Katherine was great in keeping Linh calm and they were talking up a storm (again, she was the only mother-to-be on the floor) and walking her through the whole process when they hooked Linh up to pain medication, fluids, antibiotics, and then the epidural. 
Unfortunately, nurses change every 12 hours but Ruby stepped in at 7 pm to further talk Linh through as the moment came closer and closer. Ruby was tough on Linh in getting her to push harder and harder but also supportive when changes began to happen and was there at "ground zero" with our doctor (Dr. Chao). We can't express how thankful we are to those two nurses (and the nurses that followed) as well as the rest of the crew for taking great care of us (and the food was good, too!).
appened that when we checked in on Sunday (4/15, Noon), we (well, just Linh) were the only scheduled delivery that day (and into the next morning). In fact, there was just one other baby on the whole 2nd floor (the whole floor is the Baby Center, which makes it more secure and doesn't interfere with the other hospital operations). The next day (starting around mid-morning), there were now 11 patients on the floor. So needless to say, the whole staff had just us to tend to and while I heard stories of maybe 2-3 staff (doctor, nurse, assistant) in the room with you when the baby is born, we had about a half-dozen help. The two nurses who helped pull Linh through this ordeal (hey, I helped, too!) were Katherine and Ruby. Katherine was great in keeping Linh calm and they were talking up a storm (again, she was the only mother-to-be on the floor) and walking her through the whole process when they hooked Linh up to pain medication, fluids, antibiotics, and then the epidural. 
Unfortunately, nurses change every 12 hours but Ruby stepped in at 7 pm to further talk Linh through as the moment came closer and closer. Ruby was tough on Linh in getting her to push harder and harder but also supportive when changes began to happen and was there at "ground zero" with our doctor (Dr. Chao). We can't express how thankful we are to those two nurses (and the nurses that followed) as well as the rest of the crew for taking great care of us (and the food was good, too!).
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