Best Posts in Thread: Giving birth at Provincial - a pleasant surprise

Our helper has just given birth to a healthy baby boy at the provincial Hospital. She went in last Sunday evening with the onset of labor, and after an extremely prolonged and problematic labor it was decided that a C-section was necessary to prevent further distress to mother and child. She had the operation at 6am on Tuesday and all went well. She was duly moved to the maternity ward to recover.
I made my first visit to see the new arrival that same afternoon. Previously I had only been outside the maternity block, which was pretty grim,having accessed it through the old part of the hospital, which was also as unpleasant as I had expected.
However, to my surprise, the maternity unit is in the new building, and that amazingly is nicer than Silliman and light years better than Holy Child, where our daughter was born. Our helper was in a very pleasant 2-bed semi-private room with en-suite CR and was as nice as I've seen anywhere. She was also advised by the OB-Gyn to join Phil Health, this being after the birth. This was duly done, at a cost of 2,500 pesos.
Den was finally discharged late last night (Saturday). This involved a lot of running around with paperwork from one place to another by the father but the end result when we finally handed them over to the cashier was that we owed nothing. I still haven't quite figured that out as Den wasn't even a member of PhilHealth when she gave birth but I wasn't about to argue. So the total expenditure during her stay only came to a couple of thousand pesos in prescription meds for her six-day confinement. All in all a very pleasant surprise and both mother and child were well cared for.

 

Very lucky, when my wife's sister gave birth last year there was an 'epidemic' of births. Her room was literally in the hallway across from the nurse's station along with a few other 'lucky' new mothers without a room.