With DD I was in 5 days. I thought I wanted to be in for at least 3 but I was so wrong. For reasons I couldn't do anything about I ended up in another hospital with 4 ladies on the ward and just could not sleep at all the entire time I was there - I was therefore a wreck, and cried every night when DH had to leave. This time I'm hoping to get my nice birth-centred based single room hospital if no complications and am not sure how long I'll stay but think I will miss DD too much for it to be more than one night, if I have to go to the other one again I will leave the minimum 6 hours after birth if I can.