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Pushy parents Beyoncé and Jay-Z installed bulletproof glass and burly bodyguards at the Upper East Side hospital where their diva daughter was just born — and even booted worried moms and dads out of the neonatal intensive-care unit.
The fuming other parents at Lenox Hill Hospital said they were essentially put on “lockdown” so that the pampered songstress and her party could come and go as they pleased.
“They just used the hospital like it was their own and nobody else mattered,” blasted new dad Neil Coulon, who said his efforts to see his premature, newborn twins in the neonatal ICU were disrupted at least four times by the arrival of Beyoncé and her tiny rap princess, Blue Ivy Carter, over the weekend.
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Coulon — who is from Jay-Z’s native Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn — said some of his relatives drove 4 1/2 hours to see his girls, only to be shunted aside for Beyoncé.
“They locked us into the NICU and would say, ‘You can’t come out to the hallway for the next 20 minutes.’ When I finally was able to go back out, I went to the waiting room and they’d ushered my family downstairs!
“These are parents who are going through very stressful times,’’ the 39-year-old contractor said of NICU parents. “To have that circus roll into town, having to deal with all this drama because someone is a superstar, isn’t fair.”
Beyonce, 30, and Jay-Z, 42, whose real name is Shawn Carter, welcomed their baby, born by C-section, at the hospital Saturday night.
The child was reportedly named for her dad’s album, “Blueprint” and her mom’s favorite number, 4 — represented by the Roman numeral IV, or “Ivy.”
The duo had already spent the past two months supervising pricey renovations to Beyoncé’s mammoth, fourth-floor recovery digs — including the installation of a bulletproof door to her room, a hospital worker told The Post.
The windows in her reserved wing on that floor were darkened with what appeared to be special curtains or tape to prevent anyone looking in.
“Her room is bulletproof. It’s custom-made,” a staffer said, noting that the couple sent in a security team “a couple of months ago” to evaluate the accommodations.
“They came in and reconstructed it. It’s completely different,’’ said the employee.
But the real drama surrounding Blue Ivy’s long-awaited arrival began Friday night, when Beyoncé checked in under the name Ingrid Jackson and settled into her sixth-floor delivery suite to have the baby.
Windows in the NICU down the hall were blacked out with tape and temporary curtains so that nobody could see the comings and goings of the VIPs at the other end of the hallway.
Beyoncé has “her own security, and hospital security,” a Lenox Hill employee noted.
By last night, Blue Ivy and her mom had been moved back down to their special pad on the fourth floor, where the Grammy-winning new mom and rapper dad showed her off to friends, the employee said.
A makeup artist also was spotted going up with several bags in tow, and lunch was special-delivered from a local burger joint and gourmet market.
A Lenox Hill spokeswoman said that the hospital has special patient suites and that rooms can be reserved. She declined to give the cost, but said published reports that Jay-Z shelled out $1.3 million for “an entire floor” were exaggerated — although she wouldn’t specify by how much.
Last night, at least four security guards stood watch at the hospital’s fourth-floor elevator bank, where new parents and grandparents were still voicing their frustrations over security measures that delayed or completely prevented them from visiting.
“People are really upset and complaining,” said the hospital worker, noting that the medical staff has to “shut down” whenever there’s movement on Beyoncé’s part.
Reps for Jay-Z and Beyoncé did not respond to requests for comment.
Additional reporting by Helen Freund