Is Quimby open again?

Hi. UVMMC Night shift Postpartum nurse here. Like others have said, no laboring in masks! But hospital still has mask policy so when your in hallways or other areas of the hospital, makes on. On postpartum, we do ask you to out your mask on when we are in the room, as well as visitors the the whole visit they are there. I am not very strict about this but some nurses for their own health or other reasons are. Our kitchen is open again! We have lots of great snacks on the unit for you and your partner. Only the birthing parent can order a tray from the cafeteria though. It’s not for financial reasons though, it’s literally because the size of the hospital has outgrown the patient population. The hospital is in the process of plans to design and build a new one. Current postpartum visitor policy (L&D has a different one) is 2 adults at the bedside and up to 2 siblings. Your partner does count as one of the adults. I’m just telling you the policy, some nurses are more lenient about it but some do stick very strictly to it. My ask is please don’t be upset with the nurse that is sticking to policy because someone else didn’t. One adult can stay overnight, no children overnight which is one policy that can’t be broke. Mother-Baby is an amazing place to work. I feel like even on days we may be short staffed or have difficult assignments, we really do our best to make all of our families know they are important and well cared for! Congratulations!

Our state campgrounds have cabins.

I just did this. Run a snake in the conduit through where the water line enters the basement. Put a piece of tape where your snake stops. Then map a radius (pipe can turn not always a straight shot) and dig that line.

If metal cap use a metal detector along that line and that can potentially reduce digging time.

There may be a map or coordinates where the water line enters in the basement.

Also town office should have a map.

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I gave birth at UVM a month ago. You don’t wear a mask while you’re laboring, only when in the hallways and in recover when a staff member enters the room (though they didn’t enforce it). I had an overall very positive experience!

I’m a man, and my kid was born at UVM in 2012, so I have zero helpful advice to give you.

I merely commented to salute your absolutely excellent username!

Congratulations and good luck with kiddo #2

We had a baby in late 2020 and they weren’t requiring masks then. I’d be surprised if they were now.

Porter has great midwives and doctors. Small and very friendly.

My wife just gave birth at Fletcher Allen and it was a great experience. Easy parking, great nurses and doctors, and comfortable maternity rooms. Happy to share details if it would be helpful.

I just gave birth at UVM a month ago!

I didn’t labor in my mask. Once I was settled and had my COVID test done I took it off and no one batted n eye. I had asked my dr about this before I went into labor and he said the nurses aren’t enforcing masking, especially with negative tests.

They’re definitely busy over there but I NEVER felt like I wasn’t cared for. My nurses were wonderful and very attentive.

Visitors are welcome now. Technically two at a time but my parents came with my two year old and no one cared. Again I was told as long as it’s not a gaggle of visitors it’s fine!

I was discharged after 24 hours but that was my decision, they said I could stay longer if I felt I needed to.

Happy to answer any other specific questions!

They are pretty easily identifiable. Long, continuous skinny tracks.

Kind of cool if it is on an airplane tho

An airport is a terrible place to have a child.

I feel like it's natural instinct to want to walk in the path somebody already made, it's just tough when it's xcs because nobody really knows anything about it

People are alarmed by the whole winter. People's aren't complaining that it was cold over the weekend; people are saying the swings are the alarming thing. That's what this whole post is about, including the person whose comment you're responding to. If you're not trying to obfuscate (it means to make obscure) the point of that comment, which you are now saying you agree with, I'm not sure why you took a few words out of their overall context to object to.

Well at least the remaining snow that's hard packed into ice will melt off first.

Good to hear! Glad it worked out for you guys.

You were right it was awesome

I just had this very conversation with my husband yesterday while we were out skiing. I was annoyed that there were a lot of boot prints in the tracks (in a public park—not dedicated trails). But then I remembered that before I took up x country skiing, we were snowshoeing in the same park, and my husband had to point out that I was ruining the ski tracks, because I was oblivious. I suspect this is the case a lot of the time—people just aren’t aware. If they are, and do it anyway, it’s not cool. But I realized I had to give people some slack because that was me just a few years ago.

The weather is alarming, but not because it's cold, which is what gets all the attention. The cold snap was normal; it's the rest of the winter that people should be alarmed by. I'm not trying to "obfuscate" anything. Asking for precision is not denying climate science.

Ok, but no one is arguing we've never seen such temps before. The argument is the extreme swings is new.

OK. In that case, you're taking one portion of one sentence out of it's context to object to it, in an effort to obfuscate the real point and defend your argument: that the weather is normal and not alarming. The problem you say, and i quote verbatim, is "we've all just gone soft."

You're wrong. We haven't "all just gone soft." The weather we're experiencing is not normal and is alarming.

The full sentence is: "Winter weather will be both unseasonably warm and frigid, as opposed to just cold. The time of consistent winter weather has passed."

I've never tried to do it with a metal detector, but 60hz current is a fairly distinctive sound with electrical wiring with telephony toning equipment.

You could point the metal detector (on ferrous setting) at a wall near where something was plugged in, then go outside following the same sound, with the pump running.

Rental shops can hook you up with a cheap metal detector.

They are a clear indicator of climate change and some thing that should concern you greatly. we’re not just having an easy winter, we haven’t had a winter not really. and it’s not just here, weather patterns around the world are all wrong and it’s accelerating. People focus too much on the global warming aspect of climate change not understanding that as the planet warms weather becomes unpredictable and dangerous. You lose crops to temperature fluctuations and far too much or far too little rain. The figure well if it’s hotter, colder, wetter or drier than it should be I can stay inside but that doesn’t do anything to feed us.