stay in hospital

good morning to everyone.

This is my first time posting a message here. :) so first thing, "hi".

I have a question to everyone who may have had a previous c-section.
I am booked in for a c-section in Oct as a self funded patient at Bankstown Hospital. I was wondering on average how many days are you require to stay in hospital for ?
I have paid for 3 days stay, so really am hoping i can be home then, even sooner if possible. HATE hospitals :(, but am wondering is 3 days enough or must i stay longer ?

How long did you stay in hospital for ? Also if i was going in on Wed, and i have been booked in for 3 days, what day would i be leaving fri or sat ?? (sound kinda stupid asking that question ) heehee

THANKS.

I had a c-section early saturday morning and left sunday morning.
beckles

i was told the other day that if a c section was needed then you can stay about 5 days...

depends on how your coping i suppose.

hi i was in 3 days - but i had a heammorage (sp) during sugery.
i guess it depends on how your coping.

I stayed 4 days the last 2 times.. I felt well enough to go on day 2 but bubs were in SCN so I stayed cus they did...

They recommend 5 days, but when I had DS nearly 6yrs back, I transfered to a birthing unit the next morning and I wasnt happy there so I went home the day after that. (2 days in hosp care). I was much happier at home, but had DH home full time to help first 2 weeks and I didnt feel too sore.
They seemed to think i was fine but let me know i could stay longer, I guess it depends on how well your doing physically and emotionally.
I would guess 3-4 days is good for most woman.:)

i stayed 3 days for all 3 of my ceasars i was going to stay 5 days with dd but by day 3 when they asked when do you want to go home i said now loli missed my boys to much to stay longer but i felt great out shopping the day after i came home ( left hospital at 5:30) still with staples in

I stayed 5 days with both my boys but could have gone home after 3, they had Jaundice so had to be on the special beds for that long.
I thing it is important that you have the support at home if you are wanting to go home, someone who is going to be there full time and who will help with anything that may come up. It is major surgery I think and you are not allowed to do much for a little while. :)

With my son i had him 230am saturday morning and home first thing monday morning...but with my daughter i stayed a few extra days to recover a bit more before coming home as it is a bit harder when you have another child. I had her on tuesday arvo and came home friday morning. The longer stay helped a bit but not much still needed help when i got home as you need to be more active when you get home especially with a toddler running around. So i think if you are feeling good 3 days will be plenty of hospital time

thanxs for all the reply.
but if i am booked for 3 days and i am admitted on a wed, would that allow me to be discharge on a fri or a sat ? As that would make a different who drives me home from the hospital.
I keep forgetting to ask the Dr. ( but slightly shy to ask that question ).:wall:

i had a C section and i stayed 3 days as i too hate hospitals. and i was fine to go home. they cant stop you

The day you have your baby is considered day 0 so Saturday would be day 3.

Generally what happens is you have the bed for five days, but if you like you can go on an early discharge program which means you will have midwives visit you at home each day until five days after the birth. You are not technically discharged from the hospital until the five days is up, so if anything goes wrong you can go straight back in. To be discharged early both you & bub must meet whatever criteria the hospital has, so if bub is not ready to go home but you are bub will have stay.

I think it depends what time of day your admitted.

I dn't think it makes a difference Salsa. My DS was born at 1.27am & my DD was born at 12.06pm and both times the day they were born was day 0 and we stayed for three days after that.

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The day you have your baby is considered day 0 so Saturday would be day 3.

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i was told by midwife in my last c section that if bubs is born in morning of that day its day 0 if bubs is born in afternoon its day 1.

I stayed 6 days for all 3 c sections altho i had other problems that needed monitoring.
You can go home when they are confident you can be mobile. the next day they get you up and walking and they like you to have done a poo before leaving hospital 3 days should be fine. PLus they have early discharge programs!!

At my hospital if you give birth am then you count that as day 1, if you give birth pm then they count that day as day 0.

How strange because I had one baby early AM and one early PM and both times it was day 0. Maybe it depends on the hospital?

Yes, I thought it was based on time of having baby too, based on what they told me when I had DS, who was born mid morning. I remember them saying to me the next day that he was 2 days old and I said, "no, he was only born yesterday", and they explained something about when they take it from, but maybe thats a different 'day' than the way they work out the duration of your stay.

Best to check with the Dr and then probably recheck with the hospital!
I would guess you`d go home on the Saturday...?

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How strange because I had one baby early AM and one early PM and both times it was day 0. Maybe it depends on the hospital?

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yeah maybe well i delivered in caboolture but i know in w.a they say the birthday is day 0 so strange hey :)

The hospital I stayed at Day 1 was if you had your bub in the morning before midday. If it was after midday, then that was day 0 and day 1 was the next day.

I stayed 7 days after my c/s. Was good to go after 5 but I wanted to lap up the luxury :)

when I went to my antenatal (sp?) classes, the midwife advised that no matter what time you had baby it was day 1.

I had my baby on a wednesday (day 1) and was to stay for 5 days and discharged on Sunday. I was at Nth West Private in Everton Park, Brisbane.

But it seems that some hospitals have different rules, so may pay to check with them.

I went home on day three,but the hospital did recommend staying for five days if it was your first c-section,but I asked my Doctor to let me home as I also hate hospitals,but had help waiting for me at home,Dh and mother in law!.........:rolleyes:

I had the c/s tuesday arvo/evening and was home friday arvo, though I reckon I could have gone home on thursday I had some bleeding during surgery and Jazz had jaundice that they wanted to watch. It depends on how you are feeling too, I was itching to get home but they said that 4-5 days was average. Had midwives visit us at home too. I had Shel home as well, I would have stayed as long as possible if I didn't have Shel home.

Oh and Jazz was born 5.16pm, and was counted as day 0, the next day was day one, so we left on day 3.

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with my 1st son i had him on monday and left thursday morning so was in 3 days, I dont think they count the thursday as a day as discharged in the morning
with my second son he was born on a wednesday and i left friday night.

I think if you are feeling ok and bubs is feeding well 3 days is fine. Just remember to take your pain releif ontime when you get home and not to do too much

I was told if bub was born before 12pm it`s classed as day 1, if born after 12pm it`s classed as 0 day, I`m in NSW.

I stayed in hospital for 1 week, just because that`s the length of stay they expected me to stay, they said I could have stayed longer if I liked.

At my hospital if bub is born between 12am and 11.59am thats day 0. If born 12pm (so lunchtime) and 11.59pm thats day 1.

They also ask you to stay 5 days, but allow you to leave after 3 days.

Ive not had a c/s but thats what ive been told.

DS was born around 9amish I think, and the classed it as day 1.
Hospital policy was a minimum 5 days (so they said) they preferred 7 days.
I had trouble keeping food down on day 3, so had to stay until day 5.

Nic

I was in for 5 days after c/s with our little fella... am hoping to have a 5 day stay again this time, because i will really need the rest!!! (and i even like hospital food... anything, as long as i don't have to cook!) :) .

hello everyone.
Just a quick update from my first posting of my question.

I finally went in on wednesday (22nd) to have my c-section. Turns out if i am admitted before 10am or 12 pm forgot which one ( which i did ) that was one day. anything after that is 0 day.

But in terms of how i went, i was great. By thurs when they removed all my tubes and i got up with some help from the nurses and nice rejunventing shower i was really well and relax. surprisingly the pain factor what close to nothing !!
I feel my nipple hurts more now from the breastfeeding then from the wound.
I felt so well thurs night i was requesting to leave already.:pray:
however my obs said Sat is the earliest, and by the next day friday when he came back to check the wound, he allow me home ( i think he couldn't put up with my whinging of being bored ) :dance:
so I just like to comment i had a very good experience with my c-section all thanxs to my obs !