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We are planning on having LO (she will be 28 months) be the first one to meet dd2 after daddy.
That's a good point about her having to leave the hospital with grandparents while daddy and mommy stay with new baby though. I think because you're LO is younger he will be OK as long as he's distracted?

@locavore_mama: We wanted A to be the first one to meet her sister too!

My oldest son was 8.5 months old and he came to the hospital the day after my twins were born. His grandparents brought him and then took him back home after awhile.

my boys were 2 when my daughter was born and they also came the next day. Lilly was born in the morning so they could have seen me that day but I was having some issues that kept me hooked up to a bunch of wires and stuff so we waiting until I could take the IV and catheter out that way there wasn't a bunch of tube hooked up to me when they came in.

My plan is to have him come as soon as he can, I want him to get to meet his brother first with us.

My mom brought DD1 to the hospital a couple hours after DD2 was born. She just climbed right up onto the bed with me and the baby and hugged and kissed her. She stayed on the bed with us the whole time! (19 months) It was a perfect moment. My mom snapped some pics of us all as a family and then she got some time to meet the baby, too.
DD1 hung out for an hour or so, and then my mom took her back home.

My son was 28 months, so a bit older. We went with option 2 because I knew it would probably be hard for him to leave without me. It went really well!

I would imagine your LO will be fine leaving. Mine never seemed to care. But, what do YOU want? Toddlers and a hospital room are hard! You might want to wait until you feel up for it, because just as busy as they are at home, that curiosity spikes in a hospital with gross crevasses of the room that haven't been cleaned in ages.
When my second was born we waited until I didn't have any IV's because I didn't want to worry her. I also wanted to be sitting and able to walk (I had a csection).
With my third, they met him later that day, it ended being ok, but not ideal. The IV didn't upset them, but I couldn't get out of bed yet and help wrangle. Plus DS#1 didn't get why he could crawl on me.

DD was 19 months old when DD2 was born. She didn't meet her little sister until we came home from the hospital....four hours after she was born! We left for the hospital at 4:00 am and were back in our own home before 2:00 pm that same day. Worked out perfectly.