Did you get to hold your baby in the recovery room?

jbdec28 · October 2011

pepomntpat:
This thread makes me want to cry. I feel so cheated.

This! It was hours before I got to see and hold my LO. If we decide to have more children I will make sure things are WAY different. I will request to hold my LO in the recovery room. I don't remember the first time I held her because I was on so many pain killers but I do remember telling my friend, who came to visit, not to drop her...hahaha.

I had no idea what to expect having a c-section as mine was an emergency and we weren't expecting it. In the recovery room I was moaning in pain and shaking uncontrollably and the biatch nurse told me to be quiet and calm down.

lsomerville · October 2011

pepomntpat:
This thread makes me want to cry. I feel so cheated.

Wow, me too. I never knew you could hold your babies after a c-section. This kinda raises a lot of questions for me... Now I feel even worse about my experience.

pitterpatter129 · October 2011

I didn't read all the other responses, but I agree I would have unglued in a big heap of tears if that had been the hospital's policy!

I held the baby in recovery, but was upset they even took him away from the operating room! Next time, I'm requesting that the baby stay with me the ENTIRE time. I remember them telling me I had to stay in the recovery room until I could wiggle my toes and me wiggling my toes and the nurse being suprised I could already do so. I didn't stay in the recovery room more than maybe 45 minutes or so. During that time I held the baby and tried to nurse him.

JennV514 · October 2011

Yes, absolutely. I held my baby while they wheeled me into recovery, had to pass him off to my husband due to shaking, and we were in recovery and breasfeeding within 2 hours. He never left my side.

biblionerd · October 2011

Yes. It was important, a necessity to me, to pick somewhere that would allow me to hold him immediately. Well... they had to put me back together, but he never left the OR and I held him as they wheeled us to recovery together. I would never deliver at a hospital that didn't allow this.

Ardmhs83 · October 2011

I was able to hold him right away in the recovery room.

*April2005* · October 2011

No, and I didn't even think about it at the time. I was shaking and throwing up so much I don't think I physically could have held her. I had an unplanned c-section, so after being in labor all day, I was just happy she was here and okay. DH got to hold her and went with her to the nursery while I was in recovery. I am sad I don't have any pictures of us together though right after she was born. My parents took a picture of DH and DD together when she was being wheeled off to the nursery. If I had a planned c-section maybe I would feel differently, but everything was so rushed I didn't even have time to think or be upset about it when she was born.

starlettedir · October 2011

*April2005*:
No, and I didn't even think about it at the time. I was shaking and throwing up so much I don't think I physically could have held her. I had an unplanned c-section, so after being in labor all day, I was just happy she was here and okay. DH got to hold her and went with her to the nursery while I was in recovery. I am sad I don't have any pictures of us together though right after she was born. My parents took a picture of DH and DD together when she was being wheeled off to the nursery. If I had a planned c-section maybe I would feel differently, but everything was so rushed I didn't even have time to think or be upset about it when she was born.

I'm pretty much the same way minus the throwing up. I had really no clue what was going on and I was shaking WAY too much.

Holly520 · October 2011

After she was cleaned off and wrapped up, LO was given to DH to hold during the rest of my surgery. I remember the doctor saying "Dad, hold baby up so mom can give her a kiss." When I was stiched up and back on my bed, they gave me the baby to hold while they rolled me to the recovery room.

I think it is absolutely AWFUL when I read these posts and hear that you are kept from your babies during the first couple of hours. It breaks my heart.

Sundrup23 · October 2011

Both of my previous c-sections were about the same. After they were born, they were wrapped up and given to DH who brought them to me to kiss and hold quick. While I was being stitched up (takes about 15-20 min) DH and the babies went to the nursery to get weighed, cleaned up and all that good stuff. The baby and DH met me back in our room (we don't go to recovery...we are taken to our rooms immediately after surgery is done). With my first though, I time was such a blur...so I really don't remember holding him right away. I was really shaky so I don't think I did...I think DH held him until I felt okay.

Mrs.DeliaMarieP · October 2011

yes, I was able to hold him while I was waiting to be able to wiggle my toes. I held him and bf'd him for the first time while I was waiting.

However, I may have been in a slightly different situation than scheduled c-sections because I had an emergency section so I had an epidural not a spinal

Mrs. Stew · October 2011

I was able to give DD a quick kiss, then she went to the recovery room with DH to wait for me. She needed a little oxygen at first, but I was able to hold her about 10 minutes after I got to recovery. Then we went back to our room about an hour later and I got to breastfeed.

mrsw23 · October 2011

Oh wow, I would not have stood for that. You need to check with the hospital before delivery and ask them these kinds of questions. My daughter followed us straight from OR to the recovery room, which was also my room during my hospital stay. I think she left the room once for a test, and my husband went with her. No no no no no, I will not deliver in a hospital with a rule like that. That just doesn't make sense to me. If you plan on breastfeeding it's important to start that bond within the first 30 minutes or so of their life. I'm sorry, I hope you have a much better experience with this baby!

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