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What did you do when you came home from hospital?

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HanBang · 29/10/2020 20:27

I am being discharged tomorrow after a tricky birth and a week long stay in hospital for me and DS. I couldn’t wait to get home but now feeling like it will be an anti climax.

I don’t feel that lovely feeling you’re supposed to feel going home to begin our family as a 3. I know it’s a combination of being stuck in hospital feeling lonely - obvious restrictions on visitors and general baby blues - but I just feel meh about it. Whereas previously I would have been talking about cracking open the champers!

Can I ask what you did when you finally came home if you had a stay in hospital for more than one night? Or anything else special you did? Obviously I would have loved to be someone who got out promptly and had the best cheese toastie of their life but I feel I’m past that stage after a week of hospital food!

Help - I need a pick me up!

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JumperooSue · 30/10/2020 08:29

It was Christmas Day evening, we heated up our Christmas dinner that had been saved for us, poured a glass of fizz, sat in the sofa in our Christmas PJs and opened presents whilst watching the Christmas specials. Heaven.

Sipperskipper · 30/10/2020 08:43

With DD1 it was early summer so I lay in the garden trying to sleep, after a week of postnatal ward hell. I didnt have any of the lovely feelings etc but was just so pleased to be home.

DD2 is 10 weeks old and it was much nicer & easier this time round. I just wanted to see & cuddle DD1 (now 3) as wasn't allowed visitors due to cv.

Twizbe · 30/10/2020 08:46

I had a shower and a glass of champagne

aToadOnTheWhole · 30/10/2020 15:23

Went straght to my parents. Had a shower. My dad made me food. Went to bed there. Stayed there for about two weeks months

I'd had a rough labour and EMCS. Dh wasn't entitled to paternity leave and we couldn't afford any time off unpaid so he was back to work the next day.

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HanBang · 30/10/2020 17:12

I absolutely LOVE the replies to this thread and have been laughing my way through it.

I have to say I love Mumsnet for this reason: such a mix of responses some are so touching / heart warming they make me want to cry (hormones!) and some are just hilarious. For some reason, the pp who just wrote ‘made a risotto’ cracked me up and the husband who put limes in the bath

On my way home now, having stressed to my husband the importance of clean pjs!!

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Dollywilde · 30/10/2020 19:20

Aww enjoy OP! I don’t think I slept a wink that night (god knows I wish I had!)

Marmite27 · 30/10/2020 19:26

With #1 I remember DH putting her in the living room in her car seat, then dashing out to get to his hairdresser appointment. I sat down and thought, what now? Then I realised I needed the loo, before I’d finished she’d started crying and people were knocking on the door.

#2 we dashed straight to nursery to collect #1 and see all the staff that had looked after her while I’d spent a week in hospital. It was a Friday so they all wanted to meet the baby. We went back in hospital 2 days later for another week and I can’t actually remember coming home for good. I do remember waking up in the night panicking about having to go back in though

Gooseybby · 30/10/2020 19:28

I went to bedddd, sweet, sweet bed!

BikeRunSki · 30/10/2020 19:52

@HanBang, you are right at the beginning of a wonderful journey. I remember the night at home with DS do well. I made the mistake of putting the radio on when I fed him, it was “Human” by The Killers. 12 years later that song still reminds me of that lovely warm night and that tiny little boy.

sbhydrogen · 30/10/2020 19:57

We were in hospital for a week all together (2 days pre-baby, 5 days post). I think we sat on the sofa with her, cuddled and went to bed. There was nothing particularly memorable, other than the joy of no longer being on the ward.

StickTheKettleOnAlice · 30/10/2020 20:00

Lovely Chinese takeaway, icy cold Buck’s Fizz, hot bath and my own bed never felt so bloody comfortable; Jesus even the sofa felt amazing! I had also missed dc1 more than imaginable and was desperate to get home and just be a family again with our new addition!

Cyw2018 · 30/10/2020 20:03

Had some lunch, then put DD in a sling and took the dog out for a walk. I was kept in hospital for 24 hours after the birth, so it wasn't straight away. But I had had hyperemesis and the nausea didn't ever go away completely, so after giving birth I was feeling the best i'd felt for over 8 months.

espressoontap · 30/10/2020 20:55

With my son I came home in the evening, I made a fuss of our dog but then was in bits as she didn't react well to baby. I had a glass of fizz but didn't feel right drinking it. So I just sat there and fed DS, the dog really took the shine off it.

With DD who is weeks, came home and introduced her to her older brother. It was magical. Then I sat there and fed her 😂

roarfeckingroarr · 30/10/2020 21:39

Ate pizza and drank champagne. It was a lovely evening two weeks ago!

mrscatmad31 · 30/10/2020 22:01

Are Macdonald's and watched The pottery showdown, it was such a great night, was so relieved to be home!

Si1ver · 30/10/2020 22:11

Like you I'd been in for a week. I'd had a horrible time and I was so desperate to get out.

I stood in the corner of the hallway, as deep into the centre of my house as I could get, clutching my baby and crying in relief. Then I locked the doors to stop anyone coming in and touching me or the baby while we were sleeping.

Looking back I'm surprised my poor husband didn't have me sectioned at that point.

Wobbitcatcher · 30/10/2020 22:17

Cup of tea, bar of chocolate and sat on the sofa feeding/snuggling. I’ve been home 2 weeks and haven’t don’t much else since. This is my recovery!

Chicchicchicchiclana · 30/10/2020 22:21

Put sleeping baby in car seat on the dining table and wondered what we were supposed to do next.

Had a cup of tea, opened all the cards (had been in hospital for a week).

Mumbum2011 · 30/10/2020 22:29

My parents had come to stay and welcome us home. We had a Chinese takeaway and champagne then a nice bath.

secretllama · 30/10/2020 22:40

I spent 2 days alone on the post natal ward due to lockdown , when I got home my husband let me go for a nice long nap before my sister ordered a takeaway to our house... was lovely

PopsicleHustler · 31/10/2020 03:32

Had a big bar of dairy milk and let my husband look after me

Nat6999 · 31/10/2020 03:53

Came home, had to set the steriliser up & get all bottles washed & sterilised. I had gone in unexpectedly & hadn't thought to get it done, thought I had at least another 3 weeks to do it in, fortunately I had swiped a couple of pre made bottles from the hospital. Then DH cooked me the biggest fry up ever, I was starving, hadn't eaten a square meal for a week & had a decent cup of tea. Then we crawled in to bed, I hadn't managed to escape until 6.30pm despite me telling the staff I was discharging myself at 2.00pm they slow timed me, conveniently didn't tell the doctors when they were on the ward at the time & dragged out getting me my meds to take home. I had already got dressed & packed my bags before I had announced I was leaving, my parents brought the car seat & my dad had already taken most of my stuff to the car.

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