To think an overnight stay in hospital after childbirth is standard?

If everyone is fit and healthy, I'd be out of the hospital ASAP.

DS was a surprise home birth (paramedic delivery). We spent 30 mins in the hospital!

i’ve had 2 emergency c sections:

1 was early evening, I then stayed that night and the night after. the second night was more for feeding I think

1 was early hours of the morning, I went home after 1 night in hospital - which worked out at around 36 hours after birth. I also haemorrhaged during this one and I was still home quickly!

So I’d say standard for a c section!

Sorry, I mean 16 and 12 hours in total from arriving in labour. First time i left 12 hours after birth and second time was 7 hours after birth.

I thought with a C section you're usually in for 72 hours (2 overnights). For my 2 vaginal births it was "48 hours" - in reality, being discharged the day after the birth.

I was home within 16 hours with DC1 and 12 hours for second (both vaginally births with no complications). They need you to clear out to make space for the next one, especially in a busy hospital.

Planned c section at 5pm. Was home by 6pm the next day! Second baby so confidence is a big factor but I can’t imagine why anyone would want to stay in a post natal ward any longer than they absolutely had to, they are they exact opposite of restful

Good pun!

I had complicated pregnancies including a late loss which meant long stays. My most recent pregnancy I had a c section around 11am and was discharged the following morning. Couldn’t wait to leave. Post natal wards are hot, noisy and crowded. They need the space

I’ve never had a c-section but I understand it to be major abdominal surgery and I think women should receive the same after care as a man who has had major abdominal surgery and I don’t think a one night stay would cut it.

Never had a c-section so can't comment but mine were 36h with DC1. Was meant to be 24h as there was meconium in my waters when baby arrived but as they came at 1am we didn't get discharged until 3pm the next day. I was begging them to let us leave as soon as we'd done our 24h but they said there was no-one to discharge us overnight and then it just took forever the next day! We were on a "pop up ward" as it was so stupidly busy and it seemed a horrible cycle of them needing the space but having no-one available to discharge us.

DC2 arrived at 6:45am and I was home by 2pm.

DC3 was a planned induction (I had GD) but they were born with an undiagnosed condition and ended up in neonatal for 15 days. As a patient, I was discharged from the hospital about 18h after I had the baby but obviously I was there whilst baby was in NICU.

I had to be moved around in a wheel chair for around six hours after one of my c sections because my legs didn’t have full sensation. I don’t believe anyone who says they were went home within four and a half hours.

4 births, including 2 c-sections and discharged after 24hrs for each of them. I was feeling horrific after the EMCS with DS2, but I was told they needed the bed. My mum was horrified, she'd had 2 CS in the 1970s and stayed in a week/10 days.

Minr were born 2005, 2007, 20013 & 2014

The 4th was a semi-elective CS and they were actually keen to keep me longer. It was really quiet; DS4 was the only baby delivered there on that day, and only one other the morning after (I went home in the early evening) which I think influenced them suggesting I stay another night

When they keep you in after keyhole abdominal surgery for at least 5 days (afaik) I think it's awful that they want get rid of women and baby asap. It's a shit practice. You don't get this anywhere else, crertainly not in supposedly developed countries.

After a c-section? 😱
I still couldn’t feel my legs after 4 hours.

Considering a c section is a major operation, I think mum needs at least 5 days to get over it and have some rest!

Twice I’ve had c sections and been in for less than 24 hours. I think it’s normal to get people out as soon as possible and safe.

I have had 4 C Sections (medical reasons) and I remember with my firstborn (1991) I had to stay in for 6 days.
2nd (1993) 4 days
3rd (2000) 3 days
4th (2003) 3 days

Perhaps it is the done thing now ? No idea but I think its quite a short time to be in hospital after a C Section .

C-section about 4pm, discharged 1:30 the next day (and they'd been promising from 11am, but it took them a while to get to me)

TBH, I didn't want to stay there any longer at all, I just wanted to get home.

I had my C-section at 10pm at night on a Saturday (technically classed as an emergency but I wasn't in labour). Stayed Saturday night and they would've discharged me on the Sunday night but because the 24 hour mark was so late in the day they kept me one more night and discharged me at 10am the following day. I'd have happily gone home on the Sunday if allowed.

ETA: I should add for context, this was whilst some COVID restrictions were still in place, hence why I was keen to get home for family support.

1st - out next day
2nd - out same day
3rd - emergency c-sec stayed 5 days.

It’s not a race. You stay for as long as deemed necessary for health of baby and mother.

In my unit a woman who has had a normal vaginal birth without any complications can go home within 6 hours, as long as baby has fed and mum is confident with attaching baby to breast. The women are offered to stay overnight for support and guidance re feeding if they wish to.

Elective CS and emergency CS if there are no complications for mum or baby can go home after 24 hrs.
Years ago this was very different but people want to go home much more quickly now.

Postnatal wards are busier than they ever were with partners staying over and visitors in abundance, they aren't the place of rest that they used to be.

The culture has changed people are a lot less social now with curtains drawn around beds day and night and people on mobiles 24/7. Partners/birth partners also stay overnight, so on a 26 bedded ward that's 52 adults plus babies which is not great if you need rest and sleep.

The norm in England is depressing and it is women get discharged asap, as in hours post birth if possible. This isn't because it's best, it's because there's no beds or staff and overall maternity units are really not safe places.
The concept of leaving hospital so quickly is unheard of in most countries though, and women are usually expected to stay 1-3 nights post birth minimum.
Health visitors have now picked up a lot of what the maternity units used to do.

I had two vaginal births. My first was at 19:14 and I was discharged by 1am which is crazy to look back on tbh but they obviously didn’t have a bed available and it was an extremely straightforward birth. My second was at 7am and I stayed til just after lunch the next day but I lost loads of blood in labour and my pregnancy was more complicated so it made sense but it was still a reasonably straightforward birth. My second was 2 weeks early as well and my first was 10 days late. All these things make a difference I guess.

I'd say one night was a short stay for a CS, most people I know stayed longer although that might have been a few years back. I think with a vaginal delivery, it's normal to go straight home or stay one night. I had 2 vaginal births, stayed one night with my first to supposedly support bfing but the "support" was useless and all it did was make everything more stressful. With my second, I was out within 3 hours and it would have been quicker were we not waiting ages for the discharge paperwork.

I was in for 48 hours after my eldest's birth, as I was at high risk of post-natal psychosis.

I had a home birth for second and third I had her at 2pm and was home by 5.30pm.

So, no, not too quick at all for a birth, but I have never had a C-section.