I didn't have a private room with Olive, so I was alone for 2 nights with her. I was really tired so I sent her to the nursery both nights for a couple of hours so I could get some sleep.
Did you send your newborn to the nursery?
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Yes yes yes yes yes!!! I think after a while the nurses kind of judged us because we sent her in there as much as we could. Haha. But I was dealing with the spinal headache and recovering from my blood patch procedure.
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Yes, I felt like I needed my rest! They brought her in to nurse and then right back out again. I plan on doing the same with #2. This was just at night.
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Definitely! I wanted to take advantage of any sleep I possibly could get before going home. I kept him in my room during the day and at night is send him and the nurses would bring him to me when I needed to feed him.
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We didn't. I don't even know if our hospital has a nursery. All the rooms are private labour/delivery/recovery rooms. It was never offered to me either.
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Only 1 night for a few hours because we had alot of issues with the pedi & at that point were just trying to keep him happy so he'd discharge us. We had already been there 3 days. We fired him upon leaving. Otherwise we wouldn't have been there long enough to even need to worry about it.
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No...we asked what they do if he cried and it wasn't time for him to eat, and they said they would pick him up if he was "inconsolable"...I didn't want him to have to get to that point so we kept him in the room.
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With Lala I didn't, but with M. I did... Mainly due to adoption requirements. It was hard to share her, but good for the birth family, I was by myself with her, so if I wanted to leave the room at all, I had to bring her to the nursery and the only way I could get food was to leave the room.
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nope, there was only a room-in option.
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Kaiser has a rooming in policy, so unless baby needs certain tests or there are complications, baby stays with mommy.
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Nope, but Sawyer was really good when we were in the hospital (probably sleepy from jaundice, and very full from the supplements to keep him from needing to go under the lights).
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There was no option to send her to the nursery. I would have done it in a flash - I had been up for over 24 hours by the time she was born!
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@MaisyMay: same here.
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my hospital doesn't have a nursery. they said they can keep her by the nurses station for a bit if you need a break, but that doesn't sound like a great option, so i think we'll keep her in our room for the duration.
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I kept Lo in my room and DS is with us too
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Yes; I needed sleep so off she went to snooze with other babies. The main night nurse thought e was so cute and held her most of the time she was in the nursery
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It was never offered to us. She only left to have an ultrasound on her kidneys, bath and a few other tests.
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Nope. We never felt like we needed to. The hospital where we'll probably have #2 doesn't have a nursery at all.
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No. The hospital I used doesn't have a well-baby nursery. Every mom has a private room. I don't think I could have let her go to the nursery! I was too busy staring at her all night.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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No, it wasn't an option!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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NO.
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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.
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No way! I even sent to DH with her everytime she left the room.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The hospital where I delivered discourages it. I wouldn't have anyway. I did a lot of research and there was no way.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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...)
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Yep. I was exhausted from 22 hours of labour followed by a c-section, plus I was worried about the catheter + numbness.
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