Discharge Times......... WANT OUT ASAP!

[JARM]

Hi guys

Im 39+1 today, and am having baby in local hospital.

Anyone know how soon you can get out of hospital after birth? Ideally, I want to have baby, get cleaned up and come home providing all goes to plan.

Is there a need to go to the ward? Can I come home straight from delivery room?

Arghhh, so many questions - and ive left it SO late!

Seeing midwife tomorrow anyway, but wanted MN opinions/experiences!

Ta!!!

If you want to get out quickly then an induction isn't a good idea as you're more likely to end up with a cesarean!

Unless your baby is poorly then there is no reason to stay.

I couldn't establish bf with ds1 and he didn't drink much formula to begin with so I was advised to stay in and in my 'innocence' I just went along with them.

In the 4 days there, I found it almost impossible to sleep because of the ward buzzers going off and night and the bf nurses completely unhelpful. I have to say in the maternity wards defence, they were horribly overworked and understaffed.

As soon as I was home, I had my first proper sleep, baby had double the amount of formula and my mw diagnosed jaundice for ds and a womb infection caught at hospital. Her care was infinitely superior.

As I said in my pp I was out the next morning with dd2 & the hospital did everything to expedite that.

Of course if i need to stay in for mine or babies wellbeing then i will, but if all goes smoothly, then i do want out and into my own bed as soon as possible.

I would hope that being my 3rd, i know what is "normal" in a newborn, and now I have a BFC on hand for when I get home, Im not too worried about the BF side of things - after all, we all know there is naff all support in hospitals because they are so overworked and understaffed.

Sex sex and more sex on the cards for the next few days - almost determined NOT to make the antenatal appointment next wedensday just to spite the midwife that annoyed me today!!!

Thats strange at my hosp they don't see the pead until they are at least 24hrs old.

DD3 (born at 9:20pm) was seen by the pead the following lunchtime as it was specifically requested as she had severe positional talipes. They only checked her feet and didn't check anything else...not heart, lungs, hips etc.

I had to take her to GP for a check (heart, lungs, hips....) hte following day so that it was post 24hrs.

(JARM did you ever find out the answer to the impossible question...the thing that there are 2 of in Suffolk?)

oh yeah - the impossible question - there were only 2 of these in 1991 and one of them was in suffolk - answer - a football team that owned their own team bus! I mean FFS! LOL

Thanks for all the support guys, I do feel a lot happier about being able to get out as soon as I feel ready. Of course, I may decide once im in that i want to stay, but going on previous track record, it wont happen!!!

I'm in awe at you managing to have sex 3 times a day and having 2 toddlers. With DD2 I tried everything to get her to budge (apart from the castor oil) with this one I'm going to think of 42 weeks as being the end not 40. I am due one on time having had one 2 weeks early and one nearly 2 weeks late.

SK - 3 times a day hasnt happened yet, but it will - i will make sure of it!!! Once girls are in bed for the night, before we go to bed and then maybe when DD1 is at nursery and DD2 having a nap! It will be possible!!!

I guess I should really be looking at 10th Dec being the end - but thats nearly 3 weeks away!!! YOu know me sweet - i dont do pregnancy very well, this one has already been 39 weeks too long!!!

DD1 was looking through the Next catalogue yesterday and decided we should get "that baby" I though if only, you could place your order and go and collect your newborn (well you can if your a famous US singer or actress). I want to fast forward pregnancy and just have the baby but can't have one without the other.

You will have forgotten how rotten it is by Christmas

JARM, I am with Daisymoo on the avoiding the induction, you are far more likely to have interventions during labour if you are started off with an intervention (induction).

To make you feel a little better, my dc4 was 17 days late but I did go into spontaneous labour, and my labour was just over 1 hour and I was home 3 and a half hours later

And if you were induced that might scupper your "run out the door as MW catches placenta plans"

JARM
I was asked if I wanted to go home straight from Central Delivery, less than half hour after it all finshed! and I'm the same area so I would imagine you'll have no problems leaving as soon as you want to (especially as I was on baby number 2, not 3, and going home on my own!)

but then, that may have been because I had DaisyMOO there doing such a stirling job!

How's J?

he is a boy. need I say more
have facebooked you!

I left less than 48 hrs after having ds by CS and that was after PPH.
It really depends IMHO on how much support you have at home and individual circumstances.
I should NOT have left that early but DD was sick ,14 months old had had never spent any time away from me, I couldn't stand not being with her.
My comm.MW had a massive go at me though as she said I had a high risk of rebleed and readmission - didnt though.

dd1 - 5 days, no problems just they never mentioned me going home and as i was a bit shell shocked at having a baby was quite happy to stay put.

dd2 - 24 hrs, wanted to go earlier but as she was born at 5 ish they wanted me to stay in over night. then i had to wait for them to sort out anti d injection which took forever. hated staying in and couldnt wait to get home.

dc(d)3-this time im either staying at home or im going to discharge myself fairly sharpish (all being well)i can always go back for anti d

I went into hospital at 11 p.m., delivered at 7 a.m. and didn't get home until the afternoon of the next day! I hated it!

When I told the midwife I wanted to go home she pointed out that I hadn't stood up, let alone been to the toilet or showered (was scared of post-epidural wobbly legs) and I hadn't eaten anything. Which was fair enough I suppose, so I made the effort to get up and force down the hospital food, thought I was ready to go but had to wait hours and hours for all the checks.

Next time I shall be more assertive.

I had my DS at 8:30am (first baby) and was home by 5pm. No way I wanted to stay on a stuffy ward surrounded by strangers and their constant stream of visitors, not to mention the screaming babies!

I want to leave as soon as they'll let me - sounds like the minimum is baby check by dr and your stiches checked by MW. Anything else? Did those who left early have a nurse/doula/etc come and check you for a couple days afterwards?

I left from the delivery room, but I'd planned a homebirth and transferred into hospital at the last minute. Basically once we were both fine, my DH went around telling people I wanted to go home and pestered all the doctors and midwives (who all said contradictory things about how long I'd have to stay) until they said that yes, baby and I were fine and we could go if we wanted to. Had DS at 5am and left around noon. They wanted to know that he'd had a successful breastfeed and that my uterus had gone down to the right size, and after that they were happy to let us go. I'd had a shower and got dressed, and I guess they decided I could manage. We were visited by the midwife every day for the first few days, but since we were coping fine they didn't have much to do.

The main problem was that at the hospital the paediatrician does a newborn baby check, which has to be more than 24 hours after birth in order to get a good check of the heart, so we had to take DS to the GP two days later to get the GP to do it instead, and the GP seemed a bit cross about it, though he did it.

Arrived 12.05pm. Gave birth 12.15pm. Midwives stitched me up, I breastfed DD whilst they did the paperwork. Left 3.30pm!

GP from local surgery did a house visit the next day to do the new born check.

DS: home birth that ended in emergency transfer to hated hospital and 5-day stay. Boo.
DD: elective C-section; out on Day Three (would have been day two, but she was jaundiced...).

I gace birth at 2.00am and was out by 2.00pm, 12 hours later after a little sleep. I basically had to hang around so the paedeatrician could give us the all clear. I left as fast as I could as the bed was uncomfortable, the food was terrible, it was too noisy to sleep and I was breast feeding no worries. I got the impression they were happy for me to go as it was one more free bed!

After having my third child and third c-section,gave birth on the Tuesday and was out by the Thursday afternoon.
The hospital was too hot,too noisey and I got more rest and peace at home with my family.