can you bring an air mattress to sibley for DH?

[Anonymous]

I've had 2 csections and I don't know what I would have done without my husband spending the night with me each time. The couches were fine for him to sleep on. There won't be room for an air mattress. I don't know why everyone is being so nasty in response to the question...you have a lot of questions the first time around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have the people who are telling me to let him go home had c-sections and sent their DHs home? I always heard that if you have a c-section, you can't pick up the baby for a few days. So what did you do overnight if your DH went home?

Have you never been in a hospital before? I'm sure that the night nurses in a maternity ward know how to pick up an infant, change her and deliver her to her mother for nursing. There is this device on your bed called a "call button". If your child wakes and the nurse does not hear it and come in, you can press the call button and the nurse at the station will come in to assist.

You should not bring an air mattress to a hospital and have someone sleeping on the floor where they can interfere with hospital staff coming in and tending to the patient (i.e. YOU). Your husband should go home, sleep there and get the house ready for both you and your child to return home. Believe me, there are plenty of sleepless nights in front of you. You husband should be getting as well rested as he can.

Yup - I had a kid at Sibley before. Which is why I know the nurses are not going to come running to help me with the baby when I push the call button at night!

[Anonymous]

Our room at Sibley was MINISCULE. There's no way you could have had an air mattress on the floor, even twin-size, without making it impossible for the nurses to move around and get their job done. After my c-section I still had the epidural, IV, and catheter for the first night, so the nurses did need to get around the bed to handle all of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still can't figure out what use my husband would have been at the hospital, sleep-deprived. He went home to let out the dog, take care of the other kids, turn up the thermostat for my mother, get milk, whatever.

If you have other kids that need care, I can see how your husband would be of better use at home. But honestly, it meant so much to have my husband spend the first 2 nights with me in the hospital after my c-section. We were both so excited and nervous and overwhelmed and happy, and we just wanted to be together, with our baby. Can you really not understand that impulse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have the people who are telling me to let him go home had c-sections and sent their DHs home? I always heard that if you have a c-section, you can't pick up the baby for a few days. So what did you do overnight if your DH went home?

This was not my experience. I had my c-section in the late afternoon, and by the next morning I was able to pick him up out of the bassinet no problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still can't figure out what use my husband would have been at the hospital, sleep-deprived. He went home to let out the dog, take care of the other kids, turn up the thermostat for my mother, get milk, whatever.

If you have other kids that need care, I can see how your husband would be of better use at home. But honestly, it meant so much to have my husband spend the first 2 nights with me in the hospital after my c-section. We were both so excited and nervous and overwhelmed and happy, and we just wanted to be together, with our baby. Can you really not understand that impulse?

This. I have really fond memories of that first night in the hospital, the three of us.