Average stay in hospital after successful VBAC delivery

[HeinzSight]

Having read some VBAC links that other mumsnetters have kindly posted I read on one that one of the benefits of VBAC is you stay in hospital one day less than a c section.

Is there a difference in the amount of time most hospitals want you to stay in after a VBAC than a normal delivery? After my DS2 was born I was home within 4 hours. Is that not the same after a successful VABC?

I stayed 1 night.

With my sections stayed in about 3, 4 and 7 nights. My VBAC was after 1 section. Was amazing, I really felt elated after! Even with a severe tear the recovery was far easier than CS! Good luck!

that's good to know. I stayed 3 nights after by ELCS, so 1 night would be a significant improvement!

With DS1 (emergency c-section) I was in for 10 days, but mainly due to pre-eclampsia.

But DS2 and DD (both VBAC) arrived in the morning, and I went home after lunch.

thanks brilliant news Chippy

You can go hone when you feel ready Heinz. Obviously I would take the views of the hospital staff on board, but if you feel ready to go, then there is no harm in asking if you can.

I was in 24 hours after VBAC with DD2, only because the first time I stood up, my BP dropped and I felt dizzy - otherwise, they would have let me go home after 8 hours.

VBAC with DD3, in for 5 days as she had severe jaundice - from my POV, could have gone home after 24 hours again (epidurals do funny things to my BP)

I stayed 1 night but 2 days after Em-cs no. 2.

I stayed in 1 night after an emcs, so if I have a VBAC would I be discharged before the baby came?

Do you mean a home birth?

I got "ultra-early discharge" after my VBAC - home in 4 hours! Was fab!

ohhh... shudder.... home within 4 hours?? I was in hospital for 4 days, and that was great (well, except for having to share a room with a new mum with 20 million relations, all trooping in to look at her baby). I needed those days to do nothing except lie on the hospital bed, and have my dinners brought to me. I'm counting on having 4 more days for DC3... well, I hope so anyway.

I had a VBAC, Son was delivered 12:13pm had an episiotomy & went home 4pm. hopefully will be home quite quickly with this one, 11 weeks to go

Cor Luxmum, you weren't in the NHS, were you??. 6-bed bay in a ward, hardly enough space to get the little fish-tank cot thing up the side of the bed, and most definitely kicked out of bed ASAP to get moving to help recovery (so they said.....)

Delivered 11.35 pm Monday VBAC with forceps, tear and PPH, kicked out at 9.30am Wednesday morning, had to wait over an hour and a half in the waiting room with my little girl before my friend could come and pick me up as we'd been told I wasn't being discharged till late afternoon and my husband had gone to a morning meeting. Needed the bed...Aaah the NHS.... As for luxmum - I wish, one of my worst experiences was my firstborn screaming for 40 min when I'd been brought back to the postnatal ward before a nurse finally showed up to lift her over to me (C-section, couldn't reach plus still catheterised) for a feed/ cuddle. I couldn't wait to get out of hospital just so I had some help if nothing else!

After my VBA2C I was in for three nights, but mainly because of problems with DS rather than with me. If he hadn't needed a bit of help breathing and low blood sugar then I would have been home later the same day (he was born in the wee small hours)