Has anyone heard of this??? Re: Type of car seat hospital will let you go home with.

[Rachel]

I agree with eveyone else. As long as you have a car seat that meets Aus standards they can't specify which one. We had a reversable and it was fine. They also didn't even come and check it anyway. Can't even remember if they asked! Your will be fine as long as it is designed for newborns.

[bon]

Perhaps the hospital meant that she couldn't take her baby home if she didn't have something to carry her in? I know at my hospital they do not let you carry your baby out of the hospital - you have to have a capsule or a pram to carry bubs in until you get to the car. I think it's a health and safety thing - ie you might slip and fall while holding your baby, causing injury to bub, which then leaves the hospital open to legal action if you were so inclined

[LimeSlice]

Think you have something there Bon.
My middies wouldnt let me carry her out - and I so wanted to!! lol They told us we had to use the plastic hossie bassinet to wheel her out in.
But you can imagine some people suing the hospital because they tripped with their baby!

[blueiris]

Thanks everyone. I thought it sounded funny and maybe jsut a private hospital thing! I knew you ladies would be able to help me out.

Thanks again.

We're having bubs at a private hospital & all our paperwork says is that we need a child restraint that meets Australian safety standards. We have the S'n'S Royale revesable car seat. I think they do come & check to make sure it's fitted properly.

Target wouldn't be allowed to sell the FP car seat if it didn't meet ASS anyway.

Bon ~ You have a good point there. I was planning on using our pram for this.

[Visitor8]

well since I didn't even get asked I can assure you that there wont be a problem. I think your friend is confused I have had 3 babies, and not once have the hospital questioned my car seat.

[Arimeh]

Wow - my hospital didn't even have anything in their paperwork, ask me any questions AND let me carry both babies out!!! pmsl

Either they are wayyyy negligent, or just sunshine coast cruisy...lol

[Visitor8]

hehe I don't think it's normal practice to ask or not let you carry them out. I didn't have a problem with either Mel. My friend birthed in Adelaide and I asked her and she said she had never heard of it and she walked her bub out of the hospital...

[Keira's mummy]

well we went to Gosford district which is public and they didn't even ask us, we did actually have a capsule but my partner could not get it out of the car so we just carried her out, but plenty of my friends have used the convertable seats and had nothing said to them.

[Phteven]

I walked Yasin out of hospital in my arms and put him in a convertible rear facing car seat. My hospital made no dramas about either of those things.

[BeautifulMadness]

well my Dh and mum walked our son home in the pram as our carseat was still on layby lol

[Floweryfields]

Well you also would n't want to allow people to take a baby home just in their arms though - most people are responsible, but there are some who aren't.

Perhaps it is because with a capsule, you bring it to the room and they can see that you have one, with the other style unless they come to the car with you, they won't be able to tell what you've got.

[sunshine_sieben]

Really, how could a hospital overrule national legislation?

ditto to that.
I think your friend didn't realise that reversible car seats are perfectly legal in Australia.
When I had DD, nobody checked my car seat. Nobody ever asked me about it either. They did tell me early in my pregnancy that I needed to have one. But that is just common sense. But I was at the birth centre and my midwife had been coming for home visits, so she might have seen that there was a rear facing car seat installed in my car.

As long as it meets Australian Safety Standards, the hosital has NO RIGHT to disallow you to take your baby home. And they wouldn't have any interest in doing so either.

Saša

[sunshine_sieben]

Bon, I would have kicked up the biggest stink. I don't think they would have a legal leg to stand on if they wanted to enforce this rule. If I want to carry my baby. Whether it is in my arms or in a sling, that is MY business. I understand that they want to cover their behinds, but this is just ridiculous. I would understand if they advised against carrying the baby, but they have no right enforcing this.

Saša

[luna moth]

So, I have to ask... what if you don't subscribe to the whole car thing?

[feeb]

midwife only asks you that you have a suitable car seat they do not check anything to do with it.

if however you are using a capsule and have baby wrapped in blankets and strapped in they will, ask you to take baby out of car seat and un wrap and place baby in correctly. (it happens all the time)

[Phteven]

So, I have to ask... what if you don't subscribe to the whole car thing?

You can say "no" when they ask if you have a seat in your car then sit back and enjoy watching them get in a tizz hehehe.

[sunshine_sieben]

i was thinking the exact same thing: what about people who don't have a car. what about people who don't have a pram? or a capsule. and what if they don't even want any of this stuff. it is completely possible to raise children without these things.

[Karina]

Our hospital just told us we had to have a seat installed in our car. They never asked if we did or not, and they certainly didnt come out to the car and check it.

We just had a backward facing seat. You dont have to have a capsule.

If you said that you didnt have a car seat or capsule they would probably get you to call a taxi with a backward facing seat or capsule in it...