hospital stay length after labor?

Question

have you ever heard of anyone giving birth and being out the next day. my friend gave birth to her baby girl yesterday and they let them both come home this afternoon. isn't that to soon to be released after having a baby

she had the baby at 11:30 pm last night and was let out at 2:30 pm today. her and baby are healthy and all i just think they should have left her longer for safty issues and i'm scared cuz we have the same insurance.

Answer 1

I delivered my 3rd baby at 1:00 p.m. and we went home at about 5:30 p.m.

I was fine and the baby was fine - a totally natural delivery with no drugs to wear off or anything. We had a home visit from the nurse the next day to check up on us. It was great!

Answer 2

I went home the next day after having my son, a friend of mine went home after 8hrs with her second! Little too soon for me but each to their own.
All in all I was only in the hospital for 36hrs with my son and that pleased me no end! 4 beds in the room, 4 screaming babies, people coming and going, hospital food, cold, uncomfortable beds - I'd rather be at home with MIL & husband to help.

At my hospital they have an outpatients service that if you go home within 48hrs of birth a midwife comes to your house everyday to do the heel pricks, weight, mum stuff, until the baby is a week old . I only had her once the next day and then I and baby were fine so I told her to go and see the women that really needed the help.

If everything is fine, there is no need to be in a hospital. But generally 2-4 days is normal, 5-7 is not unusual but commonly only a week stay is for a c-section.

Answer 3

If you are in the uk hospital stays as follows

you stay 1 nyt if no tearing or c section and baby is healthy

you stay 2 nyts if you had tearing and baby is is healthy

you stay 3 nyts if you had c section and baby is heathly

In some cases depending on time of birth they will let you stay an extra nyt , the reason they have it this way is believe it or not they may not always have the beds or staff to support the amount of patients. (ratio)

Unless there is cause for concern this is the usual arrangment it used to be 3 nyts no matter what but has changed in the past few years.

Answer 4

No. "Drive-thru birthing" is all the rage now. Insurance doesn't see the necessity in staying in the hospital if baby and mother are fine. They don't want to pay for either one of them to stay for a day or two, so they ask that they be released within 6-8 hours of giving birth.

Answer 5

if theres nothing wrong with her or the baby it's okay but most of the time they make you stay 2 days or 48 hours to make sure the baby is normal! Sometimes they let mother who have more than 2 kids home the day after!!

Answer 6

I was released from the hospital 24 hours after I had the baby. Depends if Mommy and Baby are OK.
My sis-in law had to wait until she was able to do #2 =O
(which was a few days later =/ )

Answer 7

I came home the day after delivering twins and also the next day after a very difficult delivery of our son. My m-in-law was a retired nurse, so that helped, but the hospital stays were the worst experiences of my life, so I couldn't wait to get out of there.

Answer 8

Hospitals constantly hold you a minimum of in a single day to observe the youngster and also you! Depending at the time you provide! ETA ~ If you have been to provide in a birthing middle you'll pass house faster..medical institution you keep overnite, inducing has no pertaining to how lengthy you keep..your simply brought about thats it!

Answer 9

I think it depends on her healing and how the baby is doing. I stayed two days after and to be honest, I'm glad because I was sooo tired and it was nice to have the nurses around to help take care of the baby and answer the jillion questions I had.

Answer 10

If your baby is perfectly healthy and they have did all the test they have to do, and your baby has made its first stool They will release you. But normally the mom can leave after 24 hours and the baby after 48.