How long did you stay after birth?

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How long did you stay in hospital after birth?? How long are you REQUIRED to stay after a VB?
Also, since i'm going to have a VBAC, how long did you stay after a VBAC?

I don't want to be away for DD long and the closest maternity at 1 1/2 hours away.

Thanks.

With Ianto, I left Monday night (not willingly) after having him Sunday morning.

With Amelia, I left on Saturday late morning/early afternoon after having her Thursday morning. I can't remember clearly, but I think they asked if I wanted to stay for one or two nights...

DD1 was 36+2 had to stay for 4 days. DD2 was 35+6 and we went home the next morning. If she was term we could have left that day, I think the minimum stay was 4 hours. Both DD was were normal vaginal deliveries have not had a VBAC but if there were no complications I dont see why they wouldnt manage you as any other vaginal birth. If you are going through a midwifery group practice you will get the follow up at home which helps if you have an early D/C

Im hoping to go home the smae day this time if bubs gets to term :)

As long as everything goes well you can leave around 4 hours later I stayed in a few days as I wanted breastfeeding established a bit better

I stayed 5 days.

I had an uncomplicated vaginal delivery at 3.30am and went home at lunchtime. I did have some chest pains, I believed it was because I'd spent 4 of the 6 hours of my labour leaning over a fitball, but the OB tried to push me into having a blood transfusion (three times!) because my haemoglobin was low, which I refused. The hospital was more than happy for me to leave (iron supps in hand) whenever I wanted, although they were surprised that I didn't want to stay :lol:

I had DS 7am the monday morning, and we left at lunch time tuesday

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my best friend was told at the hospital where she had her babies that the minimum stay after an uncomplicated vaginal birth was 4 hours - not sure whether a VBAC would be included there and of course that was only the policy at that particular hospital

I had a loooong induced VBAC and a big bleed post but I only stayed 24 hours and had a midwife visit the next day. all was well

My first two VB I was home later that afternoon (2.30am and 5.30am births), my third VB was next morning (7.30am birth), the next two where 10 and 6 days because they were born at 36 and 35 weeks.
The early release births where followed up at home for a week with a domcilary midwife.

My last vbac I stayed the minimum 6 hours. Recovered so much better at home!

I had VB both times and stayed 5 days.

With DD I had a VB and stayed 5 days - this was my choice though because it wasn't busy and I wanted to attend some more bf classes because I wasn't confident about breastfeeding on my own at home yet.

I imagine it will be a lot quicker with this baby.


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i had a VB & DS was born late afternoon on the wed. i left first thing friday morning.

Both mine were VB and I stayed the full 48hrs then home (due to strep).


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If all's well you can up and leave as soon as you want. And in public hospitals they're sometimes busy and will try and get you to leave within a few hours.
I was going to leave right away after DD, but then had PPH so stayed 2 nights. They wanted me to stay another, but it was christmas and they took pity on me. With DS I was private and ended up staying 6 nights, which was way too long in the end.

With DD2, I stayed 24 hours after the birth. Basically as soon as the midwives had done their thing, I was discharged.
I had second degree internal tearing, no other complications, if I hadn't have been given the epi and spinal I would have been able to leave about 12 hours sooner.

my friend at RWH melb left after 3ish hours. she had an intervention free VB of her second bub.

with DS was admitted thursday night (born fri morning) and left sunday afternoon
with DD admitted monday morning left thursday afternoon i actually enjoyed the break except fir the lady coughin super loud on my last night

DS I stayed in 5 nights due to his weight loss / jaundice / difficulty feeding and my engorgement
DD I stayed 3 nights because I had to be assessed before being released

With Moo I stayed overnight, with Buster I left early afternoon after having him not long past midnight. Though I had been in hospital since the previous afternoon.

DD1 I stayed for 2 days (although they shouldnt have discharged me thanks to her health, considering we were back in there after two days and her being too sick but thats another story altogether)
DD2 had her at 3am and was home by mid morning (after an hour drive)

This time round I plan on being there the min 4hrs, if not less.

With DS1 I had him at midnight sat/sun and left Monday arvo
With DS2 I had him at 9.30 am and left by 4pm the same day :) of course that was only 2 days ago and I'm recovering soooo much better at home

I stayed 40 hours. It was too long. If I could go back and change it, I would have stayed 17. (1 night rather than 2, leaving at 10am the day after DD was born.)
Althooooough, staying the extra night meant I was strong enough to walk home, which I always wanted to do.

Dd1 - 2 days. Dd2 I was gave birth in a public hossy (that's quite busy) and I stayed 18 hrs:) I had an episiotomy and they prefer you to stay 48 hours at least, but this was my 2nd and I was well enough to go

4 days - Standard for a normal vaginal birth at North Shore Private Hospital in Sydney :)

With DS1 - He was born thursday morning, we left monday. - He had issues with feeding. He had the had a tube down his throat to actually get something into him. Once that was all sorted we left.

With DS2 - He was born Saturday night, we left wednesday. - I ended up with really high temps on sunday night/monday and some other stuff. Had tests and all that stuff so had to stay till that was all under control. DS2 needed an ultrasound on his kidneys so it worked out well we were still in hospital. We didn't have to wait. :p

DS - 3 days
DD1 - 6 hours
DD2 - 24 hours

had drug free natural birth at 635am wen home at 3pm that day. where i went you had to stay minimum 4 hrs after.

Yup, my birth centre had a 4hr discharge - that is the earliest they would let you go. With both boys I ended up staying in due to meconium - 2 nights for DS1 and 1 night for DS2 for them to be monitored, which I was completely happy with.

To be honest, I'd love to have stayed in longer with DS2, just to have the quiet time to get to know him, rest, have meals brought to me etc. Yes, I did miss DS1 during the 30 hours or so I was in there, but he was brought into visit me once. I am actually considering going private next time in order to get the longer hospital stay - but that's a story for another thread.