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Yes!! Our hospital has a rooming in policy, is very pro bf'ing and only likes to have babies in the nursery when necessary. Which is great. But the 2nd night we were there (stated 2nights gave birth Saturday morning so it was 2 full days and technically 3 nights since I went into labor late Friday), I sent DH home to get sleep because I wanted one of us to be rested. Come 11 pm, LO stopped sleepily feeding every 3 hours and was wide awake and cluster feeding every 20 minutes. We were battling a bad latch, my nipples were bleeding, and by 3 pm I was so exhausted I was panicking - and alone. So I called my awesome nurse and she came in and I was sobbing and she explained the cluster feeding was a 2nd night phenomenon but if I wanted to sleep they would be more than happy to take him to the nursery for 3 hours. After making her promise me I wasn't a bad mom and that moms do this all the time, I let her take him (and promptly sobbed when he left and called DH and made HIM promise I wasn't a bad mom lol). But just those 3 hours of sleep were glorious. They didn't bottle feed or anything - they put a card on his crib that he's EBF - and that brief separation didn't ruin bf or anything.

So yeah, feel it out but don't beat yourself up if you need a break.

I did not. I did not want her out of my sight. I would have been paranoid and would have missed her too much! Plus I was big on skin to skin, no pacifiers and breastfeeding. Having her right there with me was the best way to make sure all that happened. The time I did send her away for tests, the one and only time without DH, her pajamas I had her in came back with poop all over and blood on them. I was terrified.

No he stayed in the room with me the entire time. I even wheeled him into the bathroom with me when no one else was there.

Before I had the baby I thought I'd want him in the room the whole time, but I ended up with a long labor. Since I hadn't slept in ~60 hours I really needed rest and sent him to the nursery. I was still woken up a bunch to feed him and get my vitals taken, but it was better than nothing.

I did! Only from like 11-5 am though. They would wheel her back to me in her bassinet when she woke up which was around every two hours.

Ha, everybody I know says to send the baby to the nursery just so you can get a few hours sleep!

We sent him to the nursery once a day, sometimes twice depending on how tired we were. It was always around 2 am and only for a couple of hours at a time. I could not sleep with him in our room cause I was constantly watching him or worrying about every noise he made so it was nice to know he was being watched and we could sleep for a few hours.

Yep, all 3 nights. I never thought I would, but man, I was glad to get some rest and could absolutely not sleep with the baby in the room with me.

We did for 2 out of 3 nights in the hospital. They brought DS to me when he cried or every 4 hours, whichever came first. They offered him a pacifier only when I approved it, but he rejected every one they tried so it didn't matter in the end. I'm glad he was in the nursery the first night. I was tired from laboring over a day and still out of it from my c section. We should have just kept him in on night 2 to get used to it. I didn't get any extra sleep because I was being woken often by the nurses, anyway.

We did from 11pm to 6am- I cried when they took her the first time but I was exhausted after laboring then an emergency c-section. She was brought in every 3 hours to breastfeed and has been EBF since, no issues. We were in the hospital 4 nights and I am thankful I got that extra sleep. I couldn't sleep when she was around at first because I kept checking to make sure she was breathing. New mama fears.

We did, for about an hour, during the day. It was the day after she was born and DH went home to get change clothes and rest for an hour or so. I wanted a shower so badly, plus I was exhausted! They offered to take her so that I could have a little rest. When they brought her back, she had a paci, which I was okay with. They told me that she had fussed a bit, so they held her since she was the only baby in the nursery. I appreciated being told that they held her.

I did with both LO. With DD (my first) the nurses were very good about bringing her back when she needed to eat again (they would put a note on her bassinet that said "take back to nurse at x time"). With DS the nurses were more lax and I had to call the nursery for him to be brought back; not really sure why the change since it was the same hospital but we were only there for 24hr so it wasn't too big a deal.

Nope! I had complications during delivery so the nurses bothered (some of them were a little rough/rude)/checked me pretty much every hour or so. I didn't even put LO in the isolette, I just kept her in bed with me.