Lucky for me I had a quick labour at night, we got to the hosy aroun 9:50-9:30, bubs was born at 10:37pm, and our families were in the country, so we didn't have visitors to the next day and we said they could only come during visiting hours from 1pm. Bub was in SCBU and you can't visit there between 1-2pm,. but as I was by myself and not with bubs, the visitors were good.

I found it hard when I transferred hospitals to the private one I was supposed to birth in cos bubs was in the room with me and everyone just wanted to help, and then the day after getting out there I had about 10 people and they were all very excited and all wanted to hold bubs and it was too much for me!! I was still getting used to having her with me and I didn't have control of the situation and DH didn't realise until later the effect it had on me. So he had to teel them to back off a bit, always getting messages asking how I was feeling how bubs was doing etc, and I was just trying to focus on bubs, establishing feeding, she was still being gavage fed, so expressing a lot as well, was a very difficult time!

It will come down to how you feel at the time, the MW's are always happy to tell people to go away , make sure you and your DH are on the same page, and take control of the situation enjoy those first few hours to yourselves, you only get them once!!