Under coronavirus threat, hospitals across L.A. County have tightened visitor policies in maternity wards.
Pregnancy is filled with so much unspoken anxiety in the best of times. Coronavirus adds another question into the mix: What happens if I get sick?
“The CDC is recommending a seven-day separation, but it’s a tough one, and it keeps changing,” said Dr. Sarah Kilpatrick, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Cedars-Sinai and an expert in maternal fetal medicine. “The patient can refuse, but we are hoping to encourage her to accept.” Such stringent new rules are temporary, experts said. But many in medicine believe more subtle changes are likely to become standard. Inventions born out of necessity — fewer prenatal visits, faster postpartum discharge and a spike in home births —“Some of the interventions and testing and monitoring that used to be recommended are not being done anymore because of the risk of coming to the hospital,” said UCLA nurse midwife Shadman Habibi. “Our clients are very appreciative.
“Now we’re saying, just get the blood test,” Kilpatrick said. “We still are doing the 18- to 20-week ultrasound, but we’re taking out that middle visit, which frankly probably wasn’t really necessary anyway.”
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