Reply With QuoteWith all 4 I walked out carrying them in my arms.. Dh would go get the car and bring it to the entrance so I didn't have to walk to far..
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awww i love reading all these! brings back memories!
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With all 4 I walked out carrying them in my arms.. Dh would go get the car and bring it to the entrance so I didn't have to walk to far..
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My DH, MIL and SIL came to pick us up from the hospital. I had DD by emergency c/s on Thursday and was discharged on Sunday. I walked to the car. I honestly can't remember if it was DH or SIL who carried DD to the car. She was in her capsule. I do remember as we were waiting for the lift, there was a group of expectant motherrs doing their hospital tour. The nurse asked if they could look at Molly and she was full of praise about how DD was strapped into her capsule correctly. (it was SIL old capsule so I should hope she knew how to use it)
But thinking back probably shouldn't have walked. I had been walking around the room and was fine short distances but was quite shakey on longer distances.
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With DS, I walked out carrying him in my arms. It felt very surreal.
He cried when we tried to work out how to put him in the car seat and I sat in the back seat next to him the whole way home!
dp and MIL refused to let me walk cause I was still in heaps of pain from the C/S so dp wheeled me out and MIL pushed ava in the little crib thingy
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I walked out and DH carried DS out in his capsule. I must admit it seems a bit silly to me that they would put you in a wheelchair cos it's pretty unlikely there'll be one at home to take you from the car to the house LOL
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We were stopped in the corridor and I got in trouble for trying to carry DS1 outside for some fresh air before I realised he MUST stay in the bassinette.
Since I couldn't just leave him in the room it meant that getting outside was virtually impossible until we were released.
I carried DS1 out. I waited in reception while DH got the car. The lift was broken so I had to walk up the stairs 3 days post c/s. They offered a wheelchair but I didn't want one.
With DS2 DH and DS1 came just to pick me up so left the car in the drop off zone. DH carried bub out and I held DS1's hand as he had missed me so much.No wheelchair offered after vbac.
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Great question Leash - but I think Ive just discovered some unresolved issues
I think this may turn into a boohoo...
With DD#2 some friends were there when I left the birth centre - and one of them was holding her as I was being discharged. I went downstairs in a wheelchair (was feeling a bit weak - was 24hrs post birth) then as we were going downstairs DD started crying. I said "I'll take her" as I really wanted to hold her anyway, but he just kept holding her.
DH was pushing me (in the wheelchair!) and I looked up at him and said "can you get her for me please?" but he was mucking around with our friends and instead was joking around about pushing the wheelchair trolley-style to see how fast and far it would go - with me still in it!
I felt completely violated, being in my vulnerable hormonal post-birth state, and I feel awful whenever I think about it
I think that made me cling to her after that, I rarely let people hold her as a tiny baby. I always kept her in the sling. No-one was going to take her away from me again!
Sorry about the emotional rant
Anyhoo, with DD#1 I walked out, DH was holding her. And I was fine with that
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DD1 - walked out 5 days after a VB
DS1 - walked out, 2 days after VB
DS2 - walked out 2 days after CS
DD2 - walked out 5 days after VB
Each time I carried bub & let someone else carry all the other bits & pieces
The last time was so nice, it had been a while since I had done it & we had stayed much longer than planned; it just felt very special
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I had a vaginal birth, and it was 5 days later we left....
I walked with DD in her sling and DH carried the bags to the car. The car was parked close to other cars so DH moved it away so we could get DD safely into the car with more room.
It was such a special feeling carrying DD from the hospital room out of that hospital and heading home..... I remember holding hands with DH on the way home that day with DD in the back just feeling on top of the world.
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Good thread!
I think I was offered a wheelchair due to the fact that I was on crutches (not birth related!!!) but I was happy enough to walk out. DH had already loaded the car up, and brought it around to the front of the hospital, and he brought the capsule up so we could carry DS out in it. Thank goodness, because he was so tiny, it took us ages to get the straps right. So I hobbled out, and DH carried the capsule
After the birth, DS was in SCN, and I had the shakes and nausea something shocking, so had to be wheeled. First to SCN, then to our room. There was no way I could have walked it, I could hardly hold my head up!
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I walked out holding DS in my arms. We had the worst rain that day. I had to run (as well as i could run) to the carpark and poor dh had to drive his newborn son for the first time in rain so hard that you could barely see the road infront. I sat in the back with ds as i was too scared to take my eyes off him. Then we tried very unsuccessfully to get him in the house without getting him completely wet. As he was a summer baby we didn't have any winter clothes for him so mum had to go out and buy him some warmer clothes. Not quite the homecoming i had been imagining! His birthday party is on the same day as his homecoming last year so hoping we get better weather this year
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Great question but I also think I have unresolved issues... I felt so proud the day we got to bring DD home from hospital but after reading how people got to go home with their babies I (only now) realise it is another thing I missed out on (as well as spontaneous labour, those first newborn yucky tar poos etc).
DD was born 6 weeks early due to pre-eclampsia and spent 15 days 'admitted' in the SCN. I was discharged on day 4 (but had been in hospital for 6 days). I had a VB and when we were told I could go home, I rang DP who came into the hospital and then he and I went and put all the stuff in the car then DP went home to drop it all off. I went back up to the SCN (still in my PJs) and waited with DD as she was being transferred to another hospital as she didn't require the Level 5 nursery anymore and because I was being discharged she was transferred to the nearest appropriate level 3 SCN.
On the day that DD was allowed to come home, we had been told the night before that provided she put on weight we would be going home. I had been doing a stay in at the hospital with her. DP had gone to golf.
They weighed DD and she had lost 20gms... I bawled and bawled because after 13 days I had had enough... I wanted to go home with my baby who was otherwise healthy and had done a poo about 15mins before the weigh in. I cried because that poo probaby weighed 30gms!! The nurses spoke to the doctors and told them what a good job I had been doing (don't mean to pat my own back but I was there for every feed except the 4am one - and basically sat at the hospital all day so I could do her cares etc). So after speaking to the doctors I was allowed home on gate leave which meant we were technically still admitted to the hospital and we were to go back on the Monday for another weigh in... if she hadn't put on any weight she would be readmitted.
Once we were told we could go, I went to the car and got the pram and then I packed up all our stuff and put DD in the pram - she was so tiny and was at 36weeks gestation. I pushed her out to the car - I felt so proud... we had been told we would be in hospital until at least her due date and here we were going home 4 weeks prior to that!! I was doing it by myself which was nice because after having nurses there to 'fall back on' it was nice to be doing something with/for DD all by myself. I remember being so smug and having such a huge smile on my face.
But then... once at the car I spent 2.5 hours trying to fold the darn pram up... we had NEVER folded it up before now... except for the really well worn one in the shop! DP was at golf so had his phone turned off. Then my phone battery died so I couldn't call anyone else to come and help and I had kicked the pram really hard at one point and bent the arm back so I couldn't even fold it out to put DD into it to go back to the hospital to use their phone and I didn't want to leave the pram at the car because the area we were in... well the pram wouldn't have been there when I got back to the car!
So I sat in the back of the car and cried and cried and then I fed DD and then I stared at her... and then I gathered my thoughts and went and perserved with the pram and FINALLY got it folded up and then we drove out to the golf course because after that ordeal I wasn't even going to contemplate going into the house by myself LOL.
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Great thread Leash!
I left the Hospital 5 days after cs, late afternoon (finally I could go home!!!) the hospital did offer a wheelchair but I declined, I carried ds while dp wheeled the metal trolley FULL of cards/flowers/gifts etc , we got on the elevator and pressed the down button, everyone in the lift smiled at me and I felt on top of the worl until BAM!! the elevator came to an abrupt halt, throwing me and dp (and everyone else ) to our knees, I held onto DS for my life....I thought I knew what pain was after the cs, but man, that HURT!!
We were stuck in the lift for about 1/2 an hour until finally they fixed the fault, I hobbled out of the lift and to the nearest chair in tears, while being told I should sue the hospital by some well meaning lady
DP went and got the car and parked right in the front entrance and loaded everything up, he disappeared while I fiddled with getting DS in the car (as well as I could!)
he returned with a MW from the post natal ward who tried to make me go back in and be kept for observation etc, I bawled my eyes out and just said to DP" take me home please" that was all I wanted to do, I just wanted to go home.
not the best experience, the drive home was unbearably painfull, but the endone took the edge off it once I was home, and DS made it all worthwhile!
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oh TK how awful for you!!
I didn't get offered a wheelchair either time post c/s. I carried DD and bawled the whole way (I was still waiting for her 'real' mother to come and get her lol), and I think I let DH carry DS.....
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hmm my story is more sucky than memorable...
after busting my tailbone i was high on morphine and oxycontin when they sent me home so i think i floated out of the hospital (lol no i wlked but dont really remember) but i remember XP almost dropping DD and then i was furious cause we got to the car and the baby seat was in the car but not installed yet. i couldnt hold DD cause i was too shaky so we had to get a nurse out to hold her while XP cursed and ranted about having to do everything while he assembled the car seat (**** i just had a baby, buddy!!!!)
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I walked out with DD in her bassinette from her pram and waited outside while DP ducked next door to see his sister (she's a nurse at the hospital next door) who had cooked me some yummy food and was storing it in her office fridge.
Then i think he carried her in the elevator down to the carpark.
No wheelchair but it was a very surreal experience, i will never forget how tiny she looked in her carseat for the 1st time... sorry PG hormones just made me
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I was asked if I wanted to walk up to the post natal ward, but I requested a wheelchair. After a 22 hour labour I couldn't even hold my eyes open so it was a silly question in my opinion lol!!
Went home less than 24 hours after VB & actually just had to ask DH how I got downstairs - have no recollection!! He said they basically brought the wheelchair into my room & there wasn't really any question - I got straight in. I held DS while he carried the bags & nurse pushed the chair. Then DH went to bring the car round to the front of the hospital where I walked out with DS, which I do remember lol. I rode in the back with DS.
I also remember being really surprised driving home that the world was just going along like normal, like nothing momentous had happened. I actually said to DH "Doesn't anyone know I've just had a baby?!" LOL
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