https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:10:14 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery/page/2#post-457817 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 06:24:35 +0000 Ree723 457817@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope - our hospital doesn't have a nursery for well babies and I didn't want to part with DD anyway! I had a shared room so DH couldn't technically stay the night but he stayed through most of it both nights and then went home during the day to get some sleep and shower. I was also able to sleep when DD slept so I never reached that point where I needed a few hours of uninterrupted time to sleep and recover. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery/page/2#post-457796 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:40:36 +0000 Sweet T 457796@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My hospital didn't have a nursery. I had a private room and DS roomed with me for our entire stay. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery/page/2#post-457792 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:27:56 +0000 BoogieBea 457792@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did both times. Only during the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery/page/2#post-457756 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:12:53 +0000 Kemma 457756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO did hang out with the nurses for a few hours so I could get some sleep on the first night, I was exhausted after being in labour for almost two days and was feeling pretty overwhelmed.</p> <p>For number two I think I'd like to go home straight away so we can sleep together and have a better start to the feeding and bonding process. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery/page/2#post-457738 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:17:50 +0000 shopaholic 457738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>From what I hear from other moms, our hospital doesn't really take baby away ever. You have the baby 24/7. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery/page/2#post-457730 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:51:12 +0000 BananaPancakes 457730@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Heck yes. I couldn't sleep with him in the room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery/page/2#post-457722 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:28:24 +0000 eeh 457722@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We sent her to the nursery both nights we were there and will do it with all future babies as well. I sense a lot of judgment attached with sending the babies to the nursery. We sent her with trained, licensed professionals not random 12 year olds playing video games. We were so exhausted that she was better off in their care for a few hours any way. The nursery was centrally located so I could hear if she was crying and they brought her right in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery/page/2#post-457712 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:21:42 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 457712@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My hospital didn't have a nursery. The baby had a crib and everything next to my bed. I didn't even have an option to send her to a nursery! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery/page/2#post-457696 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:02:18 +0000 jedeve 457696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our hospital doesn't have one, although they will lt you talk it to the nicu if another baby is the already. I think other than that they require a parent with th baby at all times. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457637 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:49:17 +0000 plantains 457637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep. I was exhausted from 22 hours of labour followed by a c-section, plus I was worried about the catheter + numbness. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457633 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:47:47 +0000 skibobrown 457633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had been planning on rooming in, but then after 3 days of labor I decided that I absolutely needed the rest. On the second night we tried to keep the baby with us, but we ultimately sent her to the nursery again b/c she wouldn't sleep without us rocking her bassinet, and we needed the rest again. I also was terrified of falling asleep and not having anyone watching her. The scariest thing in the world was the 1st night at home when we had to just fall asleep and hope that the baby would be fine. (Of course she was just fine...) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457629 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:45:30 +0000 KT326 457629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our hospital has a nursery but they really encourage keeping the baby in the room. DS didn't leave our room until he needed to get his tongue-tie clipped. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457627 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:45:05 +0000 Mrs. Sketchbook 457627@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Kinda? Our hospital didn't make this option very plain to us, so we didn't know to exercise it. They did offer to take him a few hours before his scheduled newborn screening and we did that. But they balked when we said no pacifier and threatened to give him back if he screamed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457616 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:36:30 +0000 cyndistar3 457616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, I couldn't bear to be away from either of my babies! With my first it wasn't an option since I gave birth in my midwifes birthing center and with my second I was already upset because of the whole c-section that I wasn't about to send her away! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457600 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:29:10 +0000 junebugmama 457600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The hospital where I delivered discourages it. I wouldn't have anyway. I did a lot of research and there was no way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457598 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:28:20 +0000 travelgirl1 457598@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No and I never would - I wrote two swapped at birth stories for magazines a few years ago, I know it's incredibly rare but it scared me enough to not let her out of my sight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457591 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:25:38 +0000 HLK208 457591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With DS, yes. For about 3 hours...they fed him formula there and I don't remember agreeing to it because I wanted to EBF but I was on Percocet so maybe I did? I was loopy. With DD, no. She stayed with one of us the entire hospital stay and I learned not to take Percocet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457586 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:23:13 +0000 DillonLion 457586@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just for a small portion of each night we were there. Everytime they brought her back I would cry because I realized how Mich I had missed her even though I was asleep the whole time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457584 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:21:10 +0000 lovebird 457584@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didnt send her to the nursery since we didn't want to be apart from her. Had a private room and the nurses were constantly checking in on us, so I changed a total of one diaper the whole time there I think. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457580 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:19:57 +0000 Bao 457580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No way! I even sent to DH with her everytime she left the room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457577 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:16:35 +0000 sarac 457577@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine didn't have one, just the nicu. I think it's kind of outdated, all the hospitals I toured (several) said that they'd done away with them. My baby was in the nicu anyway. I wouldn't do it with a future baby unless there was some medical reason, or I had a complication, and my husband couldn't be there to help. But it would kill me. It broke my heart to walk away from her in the nicu when she was there in her little box. God, it makes me tear up just to remember it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457571 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:11:31 +0000 Pink Champagne 457571@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>NO. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457564 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:04:05 +0000 wheres_c 457564@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He was immediately taken to the nursery because I was too ill to care for him. He was in the nursery most of the time but with me for some of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457468 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:18:41 +0000 erwoo 457468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With our first we didn't until the second or third. Can't remember. With our second he had to go to be under the phototherapy lights. We had so much free time we didn't know what to do with ourselves! They only brought him back to nurse every three hours for 30 mins and right back he went. He didn't come back to my room until the day we were discharged. We had almost forgot how to change a diaper bc we haven't changed one the entire time until the last day! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457467 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:18:19 +0000 littleveesmommy 457467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I couldn't bear for her to be away so I kept her with me the three nights I was at the hospital (I had a cSection so I stayed for 4 days). In hindsight I probably should have since DH couldn't stay with me in the shared room, and having to roll over to grab her that first night with my legs still numb, catheter still in, and stitches hurting was not great. Then again hopefully next time I can have a VBAC. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457447 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:10:15 +0000 autumnlove 457447@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, it wasn't an option! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457446 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:10:13 +0000 T-Mom 457446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For DD I did send her to the nursery quite a bit but not with DS. I was so worried about stimulating my breasts that I maybe only let him go once! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457442 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:07:46 +0000 yellowbird 457442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The nurses at my hospital scared me and said that someone needed to watch her at all times because she swallowed a lot of fluid and might choke! I sent her to the nursery so I could get some sleep without worrying. I think they overreacted. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457424 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:04:24 +0000 Minnie_Girl 457424@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did for a few hours each night. Didn't make me happy but I already hadn't slept for three days and was so wiped I could hardly lift myself out of bed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-send-your-newborn-to-the-nursery#post-457223 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:33:41 +0000 mamabolt 457223@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did. I was in labor overnight before she was born and was exhausted by the next night, and DH was home for the night sine there was nowhere for him to sleep. They brought her in every 2 or 3 hours to eat. </p>