I'm another who had a really positive stuck in hospital over Christmas experience. I was due mid-january, but my son had other ideas and arrived early on the 19th of December.

Part of it was down to being a prem - but when my OB had two of us in delivery suites pushing at the same time, she was with us.

When I insisted that I was NOT leaving hospital for Christmas without my son, they ended up keeping me in as a patient the entire 10 days that Sam was in there.

Everything was quiet. We had fantastic attention in SCN - for the first few days I was the only parent in the hospital attached to the three babies in SCN so I had a lot of attention in there. I got to know all the SCN nurses really well - one of them even brought me flowers on Christmas Eve.

I didn't get to know the ward nurses that well - but they knew if they couldn't find me to go to SCN. They got used to leaving meds for me with a little note.

In all, for the entire 10 days I was in there, I never ever once saw any doctor or nurse that looked like they'd been out partying. They all gave fabulous attention to me and Sam.

BW