I had a c/s with DS, and we had a rough start to breastfeeding, so I stayed 5 days. With DD I went through an independent birth centre - it was up to us how long we wanted to stay. DD was born at 11am, we chilled out at the birth centre (we had it to ourselves) for the day, had a few visitors and went home about 9pm that night after DS was in bed so we could just go home and sleep. It was lovely sleeping in my own bed .