Clicky poll: leaving the hospital

ohioroots · May 2012

Looking for advice/suggestions/experiences on how to make the transition easier for DD...[Poll]

babyhunbun7 · May 2012

I am having my DH go home and get DS and bring him to the hospital and then we will all go home together. I do NOT want anyone else there, I want it to just be our family. No mothers or MILs for me.

Daisy22 · May 2012

I put the 3rd one but that's what we did. I didn't see a reason to bring DS1 up to the hospital just to drive back home with him. He was only 15mths old when ds2 came and really he didn't even give much thought to ds2. We plan on doing it the same this time around. My mom, sister and niece are keeping the boys at our house. I'm having a planned c/s through so we'll get out on Monday when the boys are in school. I'm not disrrupting their schedule for us coming home.

TMNTgirl · May 2012

I voted for the 3rd option - but I honestly hadn't given it much thought as to what we will actually do.

I'm sure DS will come and visit us as the hospital at some point. But I plan on having him either just stay at my IL's or my parents house most of the time (depends on how long our hospital stay is and if they want to split the time taking care of him).

I'm sure we'll call whoever has him and tell them we are being discharged and they'll just meet us back at our house. Or maybe they will bring him later - who knows. We might want some time at home to get DS2 kinda settled and into the house before DS1 and the dog are brought back home into the mix.

kcisthebombdotcom · May 2012

I was discharged from the hospital. We drove to my mom's house, picked up DS, and all walked in the house together.

NavyPilotWife · May 2012

2 or 3. DD1 melted down in the car on the way home with DD2. The details are a little fuzzy. Discharge might have taken longer than planned or it might have been too close to her nap time, but she was a disaster.

12bailey18 · May 2012

My mom was at our house with DS when we came home and I loved it. I'll never forget them waiting on the porch for us when we arrived. DS was soooo excited. It was also nice having my mom there to take pics. Smile

trinny · May 2012

I think she was at daycare when we came home, and then DH brought her home later. I don't remember too well... but it was kind of like a usual school day, except she had a brother home too. That's pretty much how life for her was for awhile-- totally UNaffected! LOL

NCMichelle · May 2012

We came home from the hospital and a few hours later our DD came home. I appreciated the time we had with the new baby before the chaos hit!

dmfan897 · May 2012

The ILS brought DD1 to the hospital for a little bit to meet DD2, then my parents brought her home to spend the night. The next day they brought DD1 home [where we were with DD2]. That way DD1 got a little special attention *after* meeting the baby, and we got to ease into parenthood by only having DD2 at home for the first night.

shortstuff15 · May 2012

KC_13:

I was discharged from the hospital. We drove to my mom's house, picked up DS, and all walked in the house together.

This is what we did. We did not want to be waiting with both girls for however long it may have taken to get discharged because we all know that anything can happen to delay the actual paperwork getting done.

celiabwatson · May 2012

I put going home first and having the older one brought later because that's what we did. However, we were home the same day (birth center) so it wasn't like I hadn't seen my son in a while etc. It was a normal day for him, wake up with mommy and daddy (albeit mommy was in labor and therefore not exactly normal), go to day care provider's house, play all day, daddy picks up and comes home, oh, and mommy is on the couch with a baby now... ok, so less normal in the end. If the birth had happened at a different time we would have probably come home to him at the house. I didn't want to disrupt his schedule too much, so if it were a time when he'd be home we had a sitter for our house.

I will say though that it was heaven to come home with just the baby and relax for a few hours before picking up the big boy. So, I may actually try to do that again if necessary.

damabo80 · May 2012

DD will be 14m (adjusted) when #2 is due. So, bringing her to the hospital (which is only 10 min away) is rather pointless. She'll be at home with a caretaker. DH and I will bring the new baby home. We will probably bring DD to the hospital during recovery (looking like a c section, so I'll be there for 4 days) to see me, but the actual discharge/going home is too fraught with logistics to warrant having non essential people be a part of that process.

sweetpea2003 · May 2012

We just had my mom keep DD at home and DS, DH, and I left the hospital together.

Discharges can often last longer than you expect. I remember with DS, they told me I could probably leave "around noon" and it ended up being close to 7:30PM before we actually left. There were just a zillion pieces of paperwork, doctor sign offs, etc. and with L&D being an unpredictable environment, it took longer than anticipated. If DD had been there it would have made it stressful. Instead, we just chilled in the hospital room with DS and knew DD was home and happy with grandma.

We did have DD visit the day DS was born for about 30 minutes. He was born at around noon and DD came to see her new brother at dinner time. So we had that "hospital moment" the day before.

KimGuilbault · May 2012

My daughter was only 13 months when we had my son. The first night she spent the night at my brothers with her cousins and the second night she was home with her dad. So the morning I was released I called my FH and told him what time they were discharging me. Then he had my aunt come over and watch our daughter while he came and got me and our son. We didn't want to wake her up from her nap or bring her out in the cold as we live in MI and I had our son in JAN. Once we got home since my aunt didn't come up to the hospital *we had so many other visitors that she knew she would just wait till the day we came home* so she got to see him for a lil while and then left before my daughter woke up. Once she woke up is when we had them both to ourselves in our home.

Kaiterz · May 2012

I am hoping we can have somebody sit w/ DD at home while we are discharged. It took FOREVER for us to get out of the hospital last time. I was so antsy and agitated to leave, I can't imagine having a 20 month there getting antsy along with me.

herlysgirly · May 2012

12bailey18:
My mom was at our house with DS when we came home and I loved it. I'll never forget them waiting on the porch for us when we arrived. DS was soooo excited. It was also nice having my mom there to take pics.

I like this idea. At first I was going to agree with just wanting it to be our family of 4, no MILs or anyone there. After thinking back to waiting around to be discharged and everything, and how we were getting cranky wanting to come home - might be better to have one of my sisters waiting at my house with DD. I also love the idea of her being able to take the "coming home" pics. All I have are a couple of pictures of DH carrying the carseat in our first time.

schwietRDH · May 2012

I was worried about my daughter having an issue transitioning but when he arrived it wasn't an issue at all. We had gone over several different plans but when it came down to it, we based it on the time we were discharged & keeping her normal schedule. When I left the hospital it happened to be naptime so my parents were at our house & she was still asleep in her crib. When she woke up & came downstairs I was holding him on the couch. She climbed up onto the other side of my lap, looked at him & said "baby", then leaned back drank her milk. It was like she understood that he was staying & expected him to be there. I say just go with the flow

HTH

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