Only 10 more weeks and a sweet baby boy will be born and if all goes as planned entering our family! We can't wait! Does anyone have any hospital stories to share? Hopefully positive? We will be present for delivery, but will not be able to stay at the hospital at least overnight that is. We have a meeting with hospital staff in a few weeks to discuss how everything will go down. I'm just curious about others experience and what I should expect?
Re: Hospital Talk
Oh, one more thing- I am not sure if you are going to circumcise but the doctor at the hospital didn't feel comfortable doing it because of the legalities (even though BM's rights were terminated and we had the forms from the agency giving us consent to make medical choices). It definitely wasn't a big deal and totally understandable but that might be a question to ask if applicable. Good luck with the meeting and how exciting! 10 weeks! :-)
My best advice is - if you are in the same town as the hospital etc... have a friend nearby. It would have been really helpful for us to have more than just each other to talk with...we, my partner and I, were both so tense that it was ridiculous. I wish we'd brought someone else to have nearby.
Luckily for us, our hospital experience was far better than I could have hoped for. The staff was for the most part really considerate about the adoption and circumstances with multiple family members visiting. Since the L&D floor wasn't full, they let us have a room down the hall from BM for the 3 days we were there. We were able to share care (mostly we cared for the baby, but took him to BM's room whenever she wanted him) and we got to meet all the extended birthfamily members when they came to visit. A lot of the visits were in our room since BM was recovering from a c-section and needed lots of rest.
We had a copy of BM's birth plan, so we could help make sure the hospital staff was following what she wanted. She had asked for some of the baby's first items, name tags, bracelet etc. and we made sure she had them when we got discharged. We were also sensitive to when discharge happened and only left when she was ready for us to go home. Some of the hospital staff wanted us to go a day early, but BM really needed more time with LO before discharge.
We had talked ahead of time about circumcision, so luckily we could do that right away in the hospital. BM had to sign the consent form for it.
One of the difficult things for us was getting to eat on a regular schedule. The hospital we were at was really small and the cafeteria was open for very short hours which we kept missing due to baby stuff or visitors going on. We ended up eating a lot of meals at a diner just down the street, which was ok but also made me anxious to be away from the baby and the hospital for even those short breaks. On the third day of our stay we got a really nice nurse who set us up to have two meals delivered to our room. That.was.awesome! Definitely have an idea of what you'll do for some food during your stay.
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