My heart went out to the poster who had a litany of complaints about his treatment. Having a baby is an extremely stressful time, and when you don't have the support you are expecting, is indeed somewhat indicated by advance tours, it can be extra devastating. As someone who had a very unpleasant experience there, due less to the standards of individual caregivers than the fact that they were not staffed to handle the numbers of births they had at the time, I found myself reliving my despair when reading his post.

For people who are planning on going to PA hospital soon, one piece of advice: If your husband/partner wants to stay with you overnight, if there is noone else in the room, he/she is allowed to. If there is someone else in the room, he/she can stay in the lounge areas. Period end. It was incredibly distressing to see my husband kicked out of the hospital within an hour of my son's birth (at 1 in the morning) because I had been transferred into a room where there was another patient (who, by the way, had the TV on all night, and did not turn it off at the request of the nurse). When we complained to another nurse the next day that we had expected him to be able to be with me, she told us we should have "stuck to our guns" to allow him to stay in the lounge area.

Every bit of my stay there was horrible, down to when I FINALLY got to take a shower, I fiddled with the controls for about 20 minutes, trying to get hot water out of it, then had to find my husband, to find a nurse, who then pulled a Fonz and smacked it to get the hot water to come out. So - another word to the wise: have your partner do a shower tutorial. When you're postpartum, you really really really want a hot shower, and when it's so close and yet so far, man, it sucks.