I just delivered my daughter (my first) at Pennsy on May 7. I had an amazing experience. I was admitted at 7 a.m. after my water broke, moved to labor and delivery at 8 a.m., epidural at 10:45 and delivered at 1:22 p.m. My labor and delivery nurse was simply wonderful. My doctor is Dr. Mellen, and Dr. Ufberg delivered the baby - they are both kind, funny, and wonderful doctors. My husband and I were able to spend about an hour with our daughter before she was taken up to the maternity floor. I was moved to my room around 4 p.m. and then we were reunited. Luckily, I did not have a roommate during my two night stay. As I was being discharged a new mom was moving into the room. The day and night nurses were extremely helpful and attentive. That being said, the maternity floor is sorely in need of renovations, it is dreary and worn - but the care that I and my daughter received was excellent, which is the most important thing. The current "rules" are that husbands are supposed to leave at 10 p.m. and cannot stay over. That being said, my husband stayed with me until midnight both nights of our stay, and then we dropped our daughter off in the nursery for the night (encouraged by our night nurse so we could both get some sleep) so that he could go home and get some rest without feeling like he was leaving me all alone with a newborn. He was back by 8 a.m. We weren't planning on that arrangement, but it worked out perfectly for us.

As far as laborists, they haven't started using them yet, and from what I understand, won't have that system in place for a while, so hopefully you will have a similar experience to mine when you deliver in June. Best of luck to you!