Call list for when baby is born??

salk72788 · February 2011

How are you guys going to call people after your baby is born? Obviously, whoever you have in the room will be there right away, but will you wait to call the other family and friends? Or have them notified in some form right away? I go back and forth about this all the time!!! I guess i am more concerned with how soon i want visitors. What do you all think?

akayf · February 2011

we sent out a text with DS's pic, name and stats within 20-30 minutes to family and friends. We plan on doing the same this time.

As for visitors....I loved having them! Before we were moved to the post partum unit other than our parents and my brother, we also had 2 of my aunts and 2 of my cousins. However, that was mainly due to my mom. She had surgery a couple days before DS was born and was 2 floors below me. So a lot of my family were coming to see her too.

Once we got moved down the hall, we had about 15 visitors other than our parents during our 2 night stay. I had a very easy recovery so I was up for lots of visitors! Once again, lots of my family since they were also coming to see my mom. However, we had several friends plus DH's aunt. Most people stayed for only 20-30 minutes or so. It made the day go by faster.

bt3701 · February 2011

The L&D nurse who did our childbirth class recommended having a go to person--you call that person, then they spread the word. That way you don't get stuck in a lot of long conversations.

We'll probably do that for all the aunts and uncles and stuff. For our friends, we'll likely just shoot out a mass e-mail.

waterfall11 · February 2011

Our family isn't local so none of them will be visiting right away after baby is born except my parents, ILs and our siblings. DH's parents can tell his family and my parents can spread the word on our side. We haven't figured out the notifying friends part yet, that's more complicated.

salk72788 · February 2011

I should ask my doctor if they have a policy like that (about it just being mom and baby and dad). i think that after everything is taken care of for the first hour, it just be the three of us. But its hard bc i know his family will all show up. but maybe if i discuss our plan with all of them they will wait to come? hmmm....

Sazhrah · February 2011

I am not sure. I will leave it up to DH to decide how he wants to announce. I don't want any visitors while in the hospital except my BFF. I might have to deal with the ILs but will make it perfectly clear that they are not to stay more than 20 minutes.

skidunks · February 2011

My dad, step-mom and sisters will most likely be at the hospital, or at least some of them, someone will be at home with DS. One of them will probably be in charge of calling my mom (she lives out of town). DH will probably call his mom and dad. We'll have a couple of go to people that DH will call/text and then they will spread the word for us. That's what we did when DS was born. A lot of texting and calls waited until the next day since he was born at 9:30 PM.

Turtle143 · February 2011

Wow. Haven't really given this much a thought. I'm still only thinking of how the heck I'm going to have this baby out of me when the time comes. lol

LauraOTR · February 2011

We will tell our families (though they're local, so they'll probably already be there). Beyond that, we'll send a combination of texts, emails and will announce on facebook. We will leave it up to our parents to call our extended family. I'm sure the last thing I'll want to do is call a bunch of people and get stuck on the phone for hours.

As far as visitors, I think we'll just play it by ear. I'd love for our closest friends and family to come if I feel up for it, but want to reserve the right to ask for privacy also!

helenejr · February 2011

I've set up a message group in my phone so DH can text everyone we want to share the news with after babys birth. I have a 48 hour policy on visitors outside of family - and most of my closest friends already know that..... so i'm not concerned about the pop in!

gymnst1013 · February 2011

I don't want to be inundated at the hospital so I may not call anyone until we are about to be discharged so they don't have the opportunity to just show up. A friend of mine made a comment about how close she lives to the hospital where I'm delivering - I cringed internally because a) I don't want her (or anyone) just showing up and b) I know it won't matter how close she lives since she won't know in time.

elkaybie · February 2011

we're setting up a call tree. calling mine & his parents, and two of our best friends. they're gonna be the ones to call other family and closest friends. we're going to ask that any calls for updates be made through them as well, not us...that way we just have a few people to update instead of a whole mess of people.

we're not making any and will be requesting no posts on fb until baby arrives. in order to fully accomplish this, we will probably lock our walls from posts.

we're fine if visitors come to the waiting room b4 all the action with limited room visits until things get interesting (we'll leave that up to them...but figure our parents and siblings will definitely be there), but after baby arrives we'll want a bit of time to ourselves before allowing people in to the room to see the baby and us.

DuckDuckGoose123 · February 2011

I hadn't really thought about it. I guess it makes sense to have a go-to person send an email or something - I'd probably ask my SIL, since she's great about that kind of thing.

I don't know, I might wait a bit. Not sure I'm going to want lots of phone calls and texts or whatever right away - I keep envisioning the first few hours being just me with DH and the baby, then my parents popping in, and friends etc later. I definitely don't want hospital visitors beyond parents and possibly siblings if they're in town, so a quick announcement is unnecessary.

We live in the 'burbs kind of far from most of my friends, so I doubt anyone would drop in at the hospital, which is good. My coworkers have this weird "visit at the hospital immediately" when someone has a baby, but if they do that to me I'm so not letting them in LOL.

niende89 · February 2011

We're going to do like we did last time. Last time our parents were at the hospital when the baby was born and we left it up to them to call family. We will be calling a few close friends to tell them but almost everybody will find out via facebook.

marchmay · February 2011

My mom was with me and DH when DD was born. She called my dad and he visited within an hour after baby was born. My in-laws were in the waiting room when she was born, so they came in shortly after her birth, also.

I put them in charge of calling people because DH was in charge of following DD around (bath, bloodwork, etc.) and I was so out of it I just wanted to rest.

As far as visitors:

When I delivered DD #1, I had to stay in L&D for 48 hours after her birth. The policy for visitors was only immediate family and they could only stay for twenty minutes max. The nurses "screened" my visitors by finding out who they were and how we were related, then they'd come in and ask me if I knew them and if I wanted them to visit.

Once I was moved to Mother/Baby, they were much more lenient with visitors. (I mean, they still had to say my name to be allowed on the floor, but the nurses didn't screen them, per say, and they allowed friends as well as family to visit.)

I, too, loved having visitors. They almost all showed up with gifts or food for me so that was fun. Plus, since I was in the hospital for six days, I needed all the entertainment possible.

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