What happens immediately after birth?

[Sjb10]

Hello,
I am being induced on Tuesday at 38 weeks due to GD. This is my first baby and obviously I am thinking about the induction process/birth/meeting baby but I don't seem to hear anything about what happens straight after birth (after the placenta is delivered and any stitches etc are done) and just wondering what to expect.
After skin to skin do they take baby away for any checks/wash him?
How long do you get stay in the delivery room after?
Are you able to shower straight after?
If its nighttime or out of visiting hours and I am transfered to the post-natal ward will my partner have to leave? (even if I have only just given birth)
Sorry so many questions and I know each hospital would be different but what were your experiences?
Right now I am so excited but I know it will turn to nerves in the next few days

I had the baby launched at me and we cuddled, while I was injected in the leg to deliver the placenta, I was pummelled in the uterus to stop the bleeding like a previous poster, and my episiotomy was stitched. We had tea and toast. I ended up hooked to a drip for 4 hours. I fed the baby, midwife checked him and DH dressed him while I had a bath, drip and all. Then I got wheeled up to the ward.

I think a lot depends on how you deliver and health of the baby. I had a very long labour and then instrumental. After stitches, the midwife cleaned me up and supervised my first shower and then I think we all conked out as I can’t remember much else. I definintiely don’t remember spending hours lovingly cuddling/feeding the baby like some people do which sounds lovely. We both had 1-2 hourly checks for blood pressure and temperature for around 24 hours. I just assumed that what everyone had but I think it was either because of my blood loss or because of waters breaking early and possibility of infection. I just remember them always waking one of us up and that contributing to my tiredness. I delivered in the early hours and I think I stayed on delivery until 8-9am when I moved to post natal.

I had my baby at 5:28am and tgey.moved us to the ward about 9am. After he was born they checked him over then gave him straight to me for skin to skin amd feeding. After about an hour or so of that they dressed hin and popped him in his cot. I tried to shower but I'd had an epidural that hadn't quite worn off properly and I'd also lost a lot of blood. I nearly passed out so had to have a bed bath. Then I got clean pj's and dressing gown on and they brought me some tea and toast which was lovely. Then in came a wheelchair for me, they handed baby to me and wheeled me off to the post natal ward to get settled.

I had GD in 1st & 3rd pregnancies, borderline and diet controlled. 1st Labour was not induction as planned as went into spontaneous Labour at 36wks, very quick delivery and no problems. Baby was a low birth weight but all ok and I was allowed out very late the same day. I was unable to shower for 3 hours as I needed a drip post Labour, but had hours of skin to skin, tea and toast. No bath for baby, just dressed when my mum bought in clothes to fit him as the ones I bought were too big. Transfer to postnatal about 5hrs after and discharged a few hours later. 3rd was induction, and gain baby very low birth weight and very lethargic due to blood sugars. Taken within 10 minutes to neonatal as became unresponsive, husband went with her. No drip and shower quickly afterwards. Taken to neonatal to be with her within 2 hours, discharged a week later. Both very different. My 2nd non GD pregnancy was off to surgery immediately after delivery due to retained placenta and haemorrhage but all ok in the end and discharged 24hours later. My partner was allowed on postnatal ward at all times but went home late evening for our children and dogs. They might insist on you eating something and recording your blood sugars for 12 hours after. Good luck and enjoy a biscuit.

I want to know how so many of you women seem to have had bed baths? It's the thing that stands out most to me. It's not something I think I would ever allow someone to do to me. It just sounds so, well, embarrassing and humiliating as if you haven't gone through enough. I always question midwives' motives and why they would WANT to do that if you know what I mean. I wouldn't even want my partner doing that much less a complete stranger.

@Orsy2017 your post is very odd. Are you suggesting that the staff are getting some perverse thrill? Like all good care, it’s not about what the nurse wants, it’s about what is best for the patient, with their consent. So for example, the poster shortly before you said she lost so much blood that she nearly passed out. Surely you can see she was in no fit state to shower independently. You can’t seriously think it would be good nursing care to have left her there, perhaps in soiled linen, with bodily fluids drying on her skin, without any option to clean up? That would be humiliating and undignified.

It does not take a lot of imagination to see why a bed bath might be the best option. You seem to have some very skewed views of the role and motivation of healthcare professionals.

NSycmore54321. Just telling it how it is. My sheets weren't changed for 3 days; neither were the bins in my room.
Personally, I'd rather have someone I trust clean me up, not some random 'nurse'.
FYI 6 hours after my botched c section I got myself out of bed as the midwife couldn't be bothered to come to my room despite the nurse's station being opposite. It took me 2 hours of sheer agony to get up.
Ironically the useless woman turned up as my partner was carrying my things to the shower. You know what she said? She offered to change my sheets! That was the only time they were changed for the next 5 days! No offer of any help, didn't even ask how I was. I went off into the shower-40 minutes in a locked bathroom. Horrifies me to think what could have happened. Not once did anyone even knock on the door. I saw other women being wheeled to the bathroom, but no help was given to me in the 7 days I unfortunately had to endure at the hands of the nhs. I actually used the wheelchair to put my toiletries on and wheeled it into the shower! No one bothered telling me about the operation I'd had so I ripped off the plastic dressing as it was annoying me and threw it in the bin. I was scrubbing the incision as I noticed the plaster was orange. I'm allergic to iodine. Shame they never asked, but they were completely inept.
So, to answer your question. I don't see why anyone would want a stranger washing them down. It's not that difficult to get some warm water and cleanser and i'd rather have someone I trust thank you.