Remember when hospitals did this?

[Pappy]

When my kids were born, they ran me out of the labor room when mother was ready to deliver. The first couple of days, this is the way I saw my newborns. Sure is different today.

 

[Aunt Bea]

or when you could buy a pack of smokes and enjoy them in your room.

 

[hollydolly]

YUP...not the latter not old enough to remember smoking in hospitals, but certainly I remember the first picture...

 

[Pappy]

So I take my wife to the hospital, as she is having labor pains, this nurse, with a bulldog face, sent me home. She having piddling little pains, I was told. I no more walked in the door and the hospital called and my daughter was already born. Stupid nurse.

 

[Mrs. Robinson]

YUP...not the latter not old enough to remember smoking in hospitals, but certainly I remember the first picture...

You`re too young to be on this site then,holly lol. I smoked in my room when my son was born in 1979 (gag). Wasn`t long after that that they made you go outside on the deck to smoke, and then shortly after that banned smoking altogether.

 

[jujube]

When I went to work for a hospital system back in 1992, they would allow smoking in the room if the Chaplain OK'd it.

Why the Chaplain, you might ask?

I dunno, would be my answer.

 

[Smiling Jane]

My father loved babies, and it was a source of endless frustration to him that he wasn't allowed to hold his babies in the hospital. When they came home from the hospital with a newborn, no one got to hold the baby until he had sufficient cosseting time to be happy.

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Pappy]

Years ago, I had a job in the hospital in the circumcision dept. I got $50 a week....plus tips. :saywhat:

 

[TonyK]

I was lucky, I think. My wife was having a c-section and I would be in the delivery room with her. Well her doctor and I waited in the Physician's Lounge for the anesthesia to kick in. The doctor read the paper and smoked a cigar and acted like he was on a vacation in Bermuda. He soon left to go to work while I waited another hour, and I thought they all had forgotten about me. Then a nurse runs in, and explains I either come in now or will miss the birth. So I walk into the Delivery Room right when my wife is spilling out the last two meals she ate onto the bed. I flinched, but recovered and held it in, and soon I was a father. It turned out that the brand new anesthesiologist had given my wife an experimental shot that didn't work, so they had to wait before giving her a different shot.

If you watch reruns of St. Elsewhere you will see everyone smoking in the hospital.

 

[Manatee]

When I was in the Navy we could buy a carton of cigarettes for $1 when we were out at sea. 10 packs to a carton.

I was working when both our kids were born. They are now 54 and 56 years old.