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Lol, yeah I had my daughter less then an hour after arriving at the hospital ... Though i was on my hands and knees on the bed .. Then I fed her for 2 hours while they got someone to stitch me .. I came home the next day.. They also didnt do checks or anything till 7am .. And she was born at 3:05am .. It sounds like you had a great birth too ..
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I've had both a hospital and homebirth and i can say with COMPLETE confidence that the postnatal care after my homebirth from my midwives was 110% more involved and personal than what i received at the private hospital where i had DD1. for example they gave me pethidine despite the fact that i was a couple weeks before my due date and this conspired against my DD1 because she was a bit tiny and ended up with breathing complications and needing to be on oxygen for 24 hours.
with a homebirth you are visited every day for the first 4 days at home and they stay with you for hours. checking on you and bubs (and partner!) and basically just being there to help you out. many are also LC so can help quite awesomely with BF too! they do the heel test at home (and let you BF while doing so...BF while they puncture the heel is awesome as bubs doesnt feel the pain and is as happy as larry...i remember vividly the crying from DD1 at the hospital).
midwives also do the 6 week check and importantly, they are available on the phone whenever you need them. antenatally, postnatally, the whole works. each antenatal visit is at least an hour and this gives you all time to make sure that everyone feels happy and listened to.
After my HB experience this time i could never go back to a hospital birth (unless there was medial reason of course!).
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