Moving rooms after delivery (what's it like?)

Chelsea - posted on 03/17/2011

I had to move rooms an hour after i had given birth, it was very annoying, not only did my husband have to pack our stuff and move it to the recovery room but also it was smaller, didnt have a bed or fold out for my husband and i had to call everyone and give them a second room number and phone number.

Sommer - posted on 03/16/2011

at the hospital i had my lil girl in we have a womens center part that the labor delivery room is in and the recovery rooms but u deliver in one room and they clean u and baby up let u see baby take baby to be bathed and all that kind of stuff and they keep u in that room for a lil bit to make sure epidural or w.e u had to have n an IV is wearing off then they take u to R room which is only a few doors down but they are private rooms!

Danielle - posted on 02/11/2011

we did that here at the hospital in australia, they try not to let the baby leave you here as well.
an hour after my daughter was born i walked to our room where we stayed for 3 days and it was fine, left some one to clean up the mess and i didn't have to watch

Angela - posted on 02/09/2011

this is my 4th but the other three were at the same hospital. started in treage. wheeled to a labor room. delivered. stayed about an hr in bed holding baby and breast feeding. then took a shower and changed. wheeled me and the baby in its basinett to the other side for my recovery. I liked the move. the decore didnt remind me of all the pain and blood i just went through lol.

Katherine - posted on 02/04/2011

i had this happen with our last child. My husband stayed with our baby, lord forbid anyone walk out with her. Once our daughter was in the same room it was all good, except when my baby stopped breathing so they kept her in the icu with my husband. but she good after all that. Its not too bad. i didnt like the idea.
I have no idea what to expect with this pregnancy when we go in for delivery. I like the idea of staying in 1 room and not moving around.

Kaleigh - posted on 02/04/2011

The hospital here has the labour and delivery room so when you check in you're there until the baby is out. They do the apgar scores and eyedrops and everything right there beside you and then they move you both to your recovery room. My plan doesn't cover private or even semi private so last time I had 3 other women and their babies in the same room with just a curtain dividing us. That was irritating just because one baby woke up and they all woke up and when we all had visitors it got very crowded and I'm claustrophobic. I didn't have a problem with being moved but my hospital has a strict rule that the baby does not leave your side for anything (too many women all dopey convinced the hospital switched their babies). So the second Aiden was out they handed him to me slapped the security anklet and ID bracelet on him and then did his scores and everything beside me while they stitched me up, then they got me into a wheelchair put him in his little incubator and we were both wheeled into the hall at which point the flourescent lights hit me and I realised my arms and chest were covered in blood and goo. I begged the nurse to let me shower (I thought I was going to throw up if I didn't) so Aiden was wheeled to our recovery room with his father (they demand that a parent is present with the baby at all times) and the nurse helped me shower and then took me up to the room. That's where we stayed for the next week the only time anyone took him was for the doctor to do his circumcision everything else they did right beside me. I actually saw a woman having a psycho flip out because they 'switched her baby'' her boyfriend was extremely embarrassed I would have been too she assaulted two nurses when they tried to remind her that she had been there through the whole thing and she kept demanding that they bring her the right baby because "THAT isn't mine, I had a boy". The baby honestly does not leave your sight or the sight of your coach from the time you walk in to the time you walk out. She freaked me out I wasn't looking forward to rooming with her but luckily I was released two hours after she came in.

Being moved wasn't painful or much of a hassle for me I just got in the wheelchair with help and they wheeled me to my room and helped me into bed, no biggie there's an elevator and my room was on a completely different floor but after labour and delivery an hour car ride wouldn't have been much of a hassle nevermind a couple minutes in a wheelchair that was the breezy part.

Jennifer - posted on 02/01/2011

We have the opposite..we were moved for the first delivery and won't be moved for this due to different hospitals haha.

But with our first we checked in, went into the LD room. I had a small seperate bag for everything I would need during LD and a different bag for me and baby during recovery. We left the big bag, the carseat, all of that stuff in the car and my husband brought it up once we were settled into our recovery room. Which was also very small like what you described...and honestly, it wasn't that bad because we didn't bring a ton of stuff and it made it cozy for us getting to know our child. As far as the actual move went..I delivered all natural and was in some pain. About an hour-hour and a half after delivery, they took baby for his circumsision, bath, etc and helped me to shower in the LD room. Then wheelchaired me to our recovery room where they brought baby to me immediately, as I requested. Just try to keep the things you bring in to the LD room/get out in the LD room to a minimum. And the nurses take care of actually moving your bags unless your baby daddy just wants to do it.

I am really looking forward to not moving this time but honestly, it really wasn't a big deal to move. When you stay in the same room you still have to get up so the sheets and such can be changed so it works out the same.

Good luck!