Does your hospital have a nursery and will you utilize it?

ns1

HatchetFace said:

They have a nursery, but they only send the babies there if they need more medical attention. So if L's sugars are out of whack or something when she's born then she'll go, but other than that she'll be with us in our room. 

I know the nurses take the baby when the parents have their celebration dinner, but if we wanted her there for that we can keep her. 

Celebration dinner?? I want one. With DD I just got regular hospital food (which actually tasted like heaven after nausea for 9 months and hours without food) but poor DH just got to stare at me like a sad little hungry puppy (who also hadn't eaten in hours because he knew I would have had a serious issue if he had).

JAM85

They have one but it is rarely filled and they do not encourage sending baby there and instead support rooming in. We plan to have her with us at all time and all tests and shots etc done in the room.

cnbean

Our hospital doesn't really have a nursery per se, but the nurses will take the baby for you to get some sleep if needed. With DS I swore I wouldn't let him out of my sight. But then I ended up with a c-section and was on tons of drugs and my husband came down with the flu the same night. So neither of us were in any condition to take care of a newborn. I couldn't get out of bed for 2 days and my hubby wasn't much better off. And since DS cried non stop if he was put down in the bassinet, he got sent to the nursery every single night while I was in the hospital. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to sleep at all. 

This time I'm more open to the idea if it becomes necessary.

Empireceo

kitchencolors said:

@IBackBevo, that makes sense re: overnight timing. 

My experience with hospital LCs was that they were useless.  But I suppose that was true of the non-hospital LC I saw also.  Are they all useless?  Other than "try harder" and "try more often" they seemed unable to provide any advice.  If I wanted someone to tell me that I just wasn't trying hard enough I could have just read the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding.

Totally agree with this.  Also, the second LC I had smelled like cat litter and was wearing scrubs with a cat print and I was so grossed out my bewbies just shriveled up into sad little prunes.

megmegs

No nursery at my hospital; they said they're working on their baby friendly hospital designation, so they practice rooming-in.

spinsoffresonance

Our hospital has a nursery. With DD we had planned on keeping her in our room the entire time and not use the nursery. After the first two night of getting zero sleep, however, we decided to send her to the nursery for the last 2 nights (csection so we stayed 4 nights). Turns out the babies sleep much better in there with bright lights and lots of noise than in quiet dark rooms. I was impressed with the nurses and how they always managed to bring her back to me during the night when she was hungry and needed to nurse but before she was upset and hysterical. And I did get much more sleep even though I was nursing every 2 hours at night than with a grunting/crying baby in the room all night. I had such a positive experience last time, that this time I won't hesitate sending LO2 to the nursery so I can sleep a little. Andplusalso I'm having a csection and DH won't be staying overnight with us since he has to take care of DD1 so I'm pretty sure they're gonna require LO2 to sleep in the nursery.

Xath

Yes our hospital does, and I do plan on using it when I'm sleeping.  I wouldn't be able to sleep if I were the only one in there with him because I'd be terrified he'd stop breathing.  Also, our hospital nurses are awesome, and do nursery with feed on demand, where they'll bring him back to me whenever he's hungry.  

dragossoul84

I've had a lot of losses so after I had DS1 I was super crazy no one was allowed to take him out of my sight. I even was up a couple hours after my c-section to go with him for his tests. I will get showers when DH comes to see us since he will have to work while we are in the hospital and take vacation when we are home.