How long do birth partners stay with you

[Mumtobe2021x]

Just wondering how long birthing partners actually stay with you, is it just the birth part or do they stay with you until you leave hospital with the baby. Also how long on average are you in hospital for wirh first baby from the time you go in to the time you come out

They can stay with you whilst you're still in the delivery room, then once you're moved into to the maternity ward each hospital will have it's own visiting hour rules for when they can be there with you. You'll need to check with your local hospital as they're all different, especially with Covid.

Good luck!

IF you're moved to the maternity ward that is, depends if you need to stay in!

How long the birth partner stays with you depends on the hospital. Our local hospital was the only hospital who allowed birth partners to stay until the Mum leave throughout the whole of covid.

How long your labour varies - my time labouring in hospital lasted days, my friend delivered her baby within 30 mins of arriving at hospital. Again how long you stay in after birth varies, it can be as little as 24 hours but for me it was 5 days but I was back in hospital a few days later.

My husband was allowed to stay with me in the maternity assessment unit and on the delivery ward. I had a rough birth with very heavy blood loss so he was with us for most of the day after birth (born 23:38 via CS) as I wasn't fit to take care of baby myself.
Once they thought me fit to go up to the ward he was sent home, he wasn't happy about it. He was allowed to visit us on the ward for 2 hours a day, had to pre-book either 1-3pm or 3-5pm slots each morning.

It mostly depends on what time you have your baby and the hospital's rules and visiting times. Dd1 was born at 3am, I was moved to labour ward about half an hour before she was born. DH just made it in time for the birth and was allowed to stay with me until I was moved back to the ward an hour or so later. He was allowed back at 11am when visiting started. Ds was born at 1pm, when I got the MA I was moved straigh to labour ward. DH was with me the whole time until we were discharged at 7.30pm later that day. Dd2 was born 4am during the first lock down, no birthing partners were allowed unless you were in active labour but because of the time and how quick labour and birth went there wasn't time to get someone to look after the older 2Dc then for Dh to make it to the hospital. I gave birth alone. There were no visitors allowed on the ward, Dh didn't get to see Dd2 until we were discharged about 5pm later that day.

My trust didn't allow partners to stay overnight even before covid (🎉) but it was 10-6.

The latest on their website says they can stay with you until (if) you get moved to postnatal and then there's two, two hour visiting windows that they will be allocated..it doesn't say explicitly but reading between the lines the visit slot you get would potentially line up with your discharge time.

As for how long are you in, it's a piece of string. I was in for a week but I only actually had a baby to look after for the last two days of that!

I think it carts depending on your trust/hospital.

I’m having a planned section on Friday. My partner is allowed to be with me the entire time, from admission first thing, and is even allowed to stay overnight with me. All being well I will be able to go home 24 hours after my section (as was the case with my previous electives), and he will be able to remain at the hospital with me until I leave.

As it is we have dogs so he will go home probably around 8-9pm the day of the section, and return around 8-9am the next morning.

That was meant to say varied! No idea where carts came from lol

Varies!!!!

Completely and utterly situation and hospital dependent.

No one here can give you an answer, you need to ask the hospital you are booked in with.

For DC2 I booked in at a different birthing centre /MLU than the one I had DC1 in because their 'opening hours' were better and gave me a better chance of being able to go there than the big hospital another hour away.

Even then though they were only 'open' 8am until 8pm, outside of those times you just had to take your chances that the on call midwife wasn't attending a home birth or assisting a transfer to the big hospital.

At the MLU birthing partner could be there the entire time the mother was there because there were no wards, so if you had your baby there and couldn't go home before 'closing time' at 8pm you got transferred to the big hospital fir the night where there were strict visiting slots.