Newborn: ~1h car journey from Hospital

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Hey everyone, long time lurker, finally having a reason to post about pregnancy related concerns!

I’m currently living outside of London, and we have decided to have our baby in a hospital within the city. The car journey should take around 1h, perhaps 1h10 at worst.

Having read car seat recommendations, I can see two lines of thought:

1. Break up any journey that is longer than 30 minutes with 15 minutes breaks.
2. Only break up 1h+ journey (NHS website is more extreme, indicating 2h!)

I will obviously get a proper recommendation from my hospital on how to best handle this, but I wanted to get the opinion of other parents who may have faced a similar situation.

We are ok with potentially breaking the journey in 2 or 3 chunks as needed, but I wonder if shooting for a non-stop journey is totally out of the books?

Thank you everyone for all recommendations! Definitely going with a lie-flat seat and will do some research on all the options (and keep a multi-stop-plan handy in case needed)

I actually didn't know anything about this and our hospital is about 45 mins away. Done the journey with both my kids as newborns and no probs. Also the midwives will try and get you to stay home as long as possible but be firm with them. They were surprised how far on I was when I got there.

My son went home after spending the week in icu. Hospital told me to leave after he'd had a feed as he was more likely to sleep through. The journey was just over an hour and he slept the while way.

Not really something to be proud of lol

As others said I also had a lie flat carseat as part of a travel system with my 2 dc, it was brilliant, no transferring them from car seat to lie flat part of pram etc. Mine was a Jane travel system. x

Midwife here, don't worry, you're massively over thinking it!

Your wife will be supervising baby in the back seat and will be able to see if something is wrong. Just drive home normally

thank you!