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Yea thats annoying but sounds like a typical hospital!

haha I don't see it that way, and I didn't birth at posh hospitals or anything. Another girlfriend of mine joke about it... we feel like our hospital stays were "vacations" from mom life at home. I was grateful for the person who takes out the trash and the staffed nursery my baby went to while I needed to rest... It beats doing all that at home myself!

You can always go home early or anytime you want, especially if you delivered without complications. I was actually offered early discharge, but took the "extra" day. Got more rest at the hospital than at home!

I think hospitals can never win. It's their fault if something goes wrong medically and it's their fault too if people can't nap or the food sucks or the trash can builds up...

Most hospitals have a policy that patients be checked every hour. It's part of a nurse's job. Overall, it's still a hospital.

how obnoxious! We left 24 hours after DD was born. I just couldn't wait to get home and be left alone!

We left the hospital 24 hours after LO was born because all of the interruptions were driving me insane, but when I actually needed something, it was a pain to get someone to come help me!

I'd rather be bugged every hour than have something go wrong/missed because nobody ever stopped by. It's not a hotel -- but it's a lot more expensive. My money's worth at a hospital is a well-staffed facility with plenty of people on hand to keep and eye on me and my newborn.

Yes. Yes they are.

I didn't get any rest for three nights because of labor, and for the next two nights I couldn't rest either because of all the freaking interruptions. It's three a.m., why is it necessary to look at my butt and draw blood?

On our last day there one kind nurse finally told us "Oh! Didn't you know about the signs you can put on your door? 'Do not disturb, I'm breastfeeding, I'm pumping?'"

NO. NO ONE TOLD US ABOUT THE SIGNS.

Gaaaaaah. I felt like dying. Never doing that again unless I actually am dying!

They did this to us too. The most ridiculous one was "WAKING UP DD @ 2AM TO BATHE HER". Eventhough they knew it would take us hours to put her to sleep and they even said she was the fussiest baby in the entire floor since nobody (even pediatrician) could get her to sleep. What upset us the most is that once they were done they just handed her to me and left me with a crying baby.

@Andrea: aww, hope the jaundice goes down! Yes, you need to rest up before going home... Hope the interruptions go down!