Vag birth clicky poll

christina627 · August 2010

In my experience, we planned a homebirth and got an induction in hospital at 43+ weeks, and were able to go home 12 hours after the birth.

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ErinMSB · August 2010

From what I understand, most hospitals want you to stay for at least 24 hours so that they can perform the newborn blood screening test (aka the "PKU test" or "heel-prick test").

christina627 · August 2010

My MW did that at our home. Her services include PP care.

I was just curious because it seems to vary between hospitals and what kind of birth. My aunt's baby was premature and she stayed like 2-3 nights (as long as her insurance would cover) so she could be close to the baby. And some moms want to stay longer and some moms...like me...want to be home ASAP.

lindsayll · August 2010

In hindsight, I wish we had pushed to get discharged after one night. We really didn't need a second night of crappy, woken up noise and people who want to take your BP hospital sleep. Completely unnecessary.

skyejo · August 2010

This could be complete misinformation, but I believe that there are state laws in place for the minimum amount of time that you must stay in the hospital after a delivery (typically 24 hours) in order to make sure that the hospitals are not kicking you out prematurely due to lack of staff, not enough rooms, etc. I'm not sure if this is true, but that's what I've heard.

earthboundmisfit · August 2010

In my case my OB gave me the option of being released about 22 hours after birth. However at that point DH and I didn't feel ready..first baby. We were scared lol. We left 48 hours after delivery.

This time though I'm gonna be ready to go, and to especially be home with my first daugther. I think we'll leave before 24 is up, assuming that baby and I are doing well.

LindseyJW · August 2010

skyejo:

This could be complete misinformation, but I believe that there are state laws in place for the minimum amount of time that you must stay in the hospital after a delivery (typically 24 hours) in order to make sure that the hospitals are not kicking you out prematurely due to lack of staff, not enough rooms, etc. I'm not sure if this is true, but that's what I've heard.

it may be true that they can't make you leave before a certain period of time has passed, but you can always leave whenever you want.

Dobie_Mama · August 2010

LindseyJW:
skyejo:

This could be complete misinformation, but I believe that there are state laws in place for the minimum amount of time that you must stay in the hospital after a delivery (typically 24 hours) in order to make sure that the hospitals are not kicking you out prematurely due to lack of staff, not enough rooms, etc. I'm not sure if this is true, but that's what I've heard.

it may be true that they can't make you leave before a certain period of time has passed, but you can always leave whenever you want.

Ditto this. Our hospital has to let you stay 48hrs for a vaginal birth and 72hrs for a c/s ... but, you can leave before that. I did.

~adamwife~ · August 2010

They made me stay at least 24 hours with the last one, which is the main reason I am having a homebirth this time. I was ready to leave and be home with my family after a few hours. Needless to say, I was not a happy lady to be around!

capitalB · August 2010

We left less than 24 hours after giving birth, but I was in labor for about 30 hours prior to pushing him out, so it felt like we were there longer.

I wish I would have stayed one more night - we didn't have any family in town yet and once we got home I was completely overwhelmed and terrified!

Papa Bear's Bride · August 2010

With DD we were in the hosp. from 11pm on the 21st to 12pm on the 24th, but that was because she was born 4wks early. With DS, we were home 4hrs after he was born, but that was in a birthing center. With LO, we'll be having him here.

AshasaurusRex · August 2010

I gave birth in a birth center and was home within 6 hours.

mrstice · August 2010

With DS1, I was induced. He was born at 11:30pm, and if things would have been fine we would have left around 36 hours. But both he and I developed infections (him 10 hours after birth, me about 12 hours after that), so he was in NICU for a week and I was on the L&D floor for a week. (Although I spent 90% of my time in NICU).

DS2 was born at home. The birth team was gone about 4 hours after he was born.

momofolivia · August 2010

i left on the third day, but I only stayed that long sue to complications from my epi. The baby was fine.

MrsTiara · August 2010

Birth center birth, got there at 2:30 ish am, gave birth at 3:19am, was back home at 7am. Was gone from my house for less than five hours. (and will never ride in a car while trying NOT to push again!!)

BlueRidgeMama · August 2010

I stayed two nights with my first. Too long! The constant BP checks and stress about how often I was attempting to nurse DD was miserable the second night. Stayed one night this time, which was perfect.

Blackvelvet · August 2010

I gave birth at 12:53am so my 24 hours that was require put us in the middle of the night I was totaly ready to leave at 8am but the nurse F'd up and lost DS blood work and it took untill noon to get it then social services wanted to talk to us since they found out both DH and I were without a job and they worried we wouldn't be able to handle going home.

flyer23 · August 2010

I voted based on my experience with DD. She was born around 9:30 PM on Monday and we were discharged around 11 AM on Wednesday. I wouldn't have minded staying longer -- first baby, it was awfully nice to have food, a nurse, an LC, anything I needed just a button push away. But we were in a semi-private room, and another mom/baby joined us in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, and THAT was no fun. So I was more than ready to get out of there just because of that.

With DS, when I was planning a hospital birth, I had hoped to be discharged as soon as possible (likely around 24 hours after the birth), because I wanted to get DS and me home to DD. We ended up having a homebirth, and that was great.

2.red.heads · August 2010

since DS was born just after midnight it allowed us to stay extra in a way (so I think we were there for almost 3 days?). i loved being in the hospital (helpful nurses, snack carts always coming by the room...). this time i esp. wouldn't mind staying the full amount because i think i'll get more rest and healing time there than w/my crazy preschooler at home. both sets of grandparents are in town and he loves being w/them anyway.

macchiatto · August 2010

My boys were born around 9 p.m. on a Tuesday night and we were discharged at noon on Thursday. I would've liked to leave earlier on Thursday but wasn't ready yet on Wednesday; I was exhausted! (And had been on bed rest the last 4 weeks so I don't think that helped!)

AlaskanKisses · August 2010

DD stayed in hospital for 4 days total, cord complications, I could have been released in 12 hours but I stayed right with her. I still ripped horribly, that sucked sooo bad. ouch

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