How long were you in the hospital with your newborn?

Pro tip: tell your wife and the nurses when it’s all over how much your back hurts from standing and watching the delivery and sleeping on that sofa. That goes over really well with all those in the room.

Don’t ask me how I know.

2.5 days. Arrived in labor around 2:00a on a Thursday. Uncomplicated delivery at 3:00p. Discharged Saturday afternoon.

1st kid 2 nights. 2nd 1 night

I tried to leave out pronouns so people could assume it was from a guy. I think I messed up by giving specifics

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How long from arriving at the hospital to departure can we expect??

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Spending one or two nights there with an uncomplicated delivery.

I always planned for a bit longer as one never knows.

Congrats & good luck.

Probably the right opportunity to turn this thread into a circumcision debate now-

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8 days.

Low blood sugar required a stay in the NICU. She was 9 pounds, 11 ounces when she was born. The doctor in charge was a stickler that she had to surpass her birth weight by 50% before she could be released. The doctor was applying metrics for a preemie to my full term kid. When that doctor’s rotation overseeing the NICU the next one was befuddled as to why we weren’t sent home sooner. In reality it would’ve been about 3 days if we didn’t have a stickler as that doc was on that preemie birthweight thing.

Shoulda asked her what shes cookin for dinner that night

Wife worked at the hospital we delivered at - we got hooked up with the best private room. Full bed for me.

First one went to the NiCu, 3 days. My brother and cousins brought some wings and beer the day of discharge - had two tv’s on separate CFB games.

I had two c-sections…four nights/five days with each.