Has anyone heard of this??? Re: Type of car seat hospital will let you go home with.
So I was showing a gf of mine the car seat we got for our little one. It is the fisher and price newborn to toddler reversible car seat that was recently on sale at target (we didnt get it on sale though!!!!!! ) and she told me that the hospital might not let me take my baby home in that and that the hospital she went to said they needed to have a capsule or they couldnt take their baby home.
Has anyone heard of this? I will have to ring my hospital tomorrow to check but I thought this was bizarre. She did go to the Hills Private Hospital, so not sure whether this was just her hospitals policy.
I am going to Hornsby Hospital in Sydney which is public.
I know they have to be installed properly or they wouldnt let you take the baby home, but this I have never heard of.
I'm pretty sure that all baby capsules/car seats sold in Aust comply with Aust/NZ standards.
I also thought that hopsital staff just verbally checked with parents before discharge that they had fitted an appropriate baby seat/restraint. Ultimately, it's up to parents to make sure they have the right gear and follow the law (as well as not endangering the baby of course!) which you're doing. I think mat ward staff would be taking a bit of a liability risk to go out to your car and actually inspect your set up IYKWIM?
I heard through a friend that there is a company that do fittings and hiring of baby capsules/seats and other things like cots that service a bunch of hospitals on the north side of Sydney so you could always get your situation checked by them once you have bubs.
our paperwork from the hospital simply says a properly fitted child restraint, to be arranged by us. they offer contact details to hire a capsule, but as long as it means Au standards (which yours does) there is no drama with it
our paperwork from the hospital simply says a properly fitted child restraint, to be arranged by us. they offer contact details to hire a capsule, but as long as it means Au standards (which yours does) there is no drama with it
as long as it meets aus standards and is properly fitted its fine.
Hospital verball checks, they dont come and inspect it, and we never had a capsule for DS, just a reversible S'n'S chld restraint.
The nurse came out wth us to check the car seat to make sure you actually have one, that is current (ie no velcro capsules!! lol) So long as it is fitted and meets safetyy standards then they cannot prevent you leaving with your baby in it.
I think you friend has misunderstood.
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.
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...
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.
Alibaby I just checked my hospitals information & it just says an approved infant car restraint fitted to vehicle. I don't think a hospital can make you buy a capsule if you want a reversible instead. They may prefer a capsule but it's not their choice.
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.
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
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!
Has anyone heard of this??? Re: Type of car seat hospital will let you go home with.
) and she told me that the hospital might not let me take my baby home in that and that the hospital she went to said they needed to have a capsule or they couldnt take their baby home.
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