Can you leave hospital with baby without a car seat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For everyone asking if OP is going to carry the baby home -- ever heard of this amazing contraption called a stroller?

This thread perfectly illustrates exactly how car-centric our society is. People absolutely cannot fathom a human being completing a relatively simple task without a goddamn car. It’s insanity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously a first time Mom LOL. Honey your vagina and pelvic area is about to be ripped apart and stitched back together. Good luck with that 10 min walk.

Don’t terrify the poor woman. I would have been fine to walk 10 minutes. Hell, going from the hospital room to the parking lot (our baby had a short peds stay for a non-emergency reason) was a 10 minute walk. I would have been fine to walk 30 minutes and spent a fair amount of time pacing around my room waiting for discharge. Vaginal birth, some tearing.

There’s no reason to be terrified, but giving birth does do a number on the body. I went out on short, gentle walks from the day I left the hospital and was fine. But also remember taking a longer walk on day 4 or 5 and it felt like my insides were going to fall out and had to take lots of breaks.

And that’s with a vaginal birth with average tearing.

[Anonymous]

I was wearing a diaper and had blood clots the size of a child's fist falling out of my uterus in the days right after birth.

Honestly, it's a really nice idea to walk home if you are all feeling great, but plan for plan B and bring a carseat. Or a wheelchair for you and your spouse can push both you and the baby home

[Anonymous]

Before covid, the would not let us leave without a car seat.
With covid, they stopped me in the lobby and made me return it to the car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This cannot possibly be true? How could a hospital require you to have a car seat if you don’t have a car?

I got b****d out by a nurse for not taking the $500 parenting course because we had the car seat and the base and the baby seat was not on the newborn setting. After I was up all night in hard labor with pitocin, no epidural, had scare with a blue baby then they tortured me with sleep deprivation. Fun times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are they going to do, hold the baby hostage?

Presumably they can call CPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cannot possibly be true? How could a hospital require you to have a car seat if you don’t have a car?

I got b****d out by a nurse for not taking the $500 parenting course because we had the car seat and the base and the baby seat was not on the newborn setting. After I was up all night in hard labor with pitocin, no epidural, had scare with a blue baby then they tortured me with sleep deprivation. Fun times.

I left the hospital a day early after a nurse tried to school me on the dangers of walking down the corridor with my newborn. My THIRD newborn... 🙄

It’s all just CYA. They could give two shits about most babies and mothers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Live 10 min walk from hospital, will they let me leave if they know we are walking?

Only a fool would walk a new born home even if it is only ten minutes away. Are you planning on carrying infant or using a red wagon to get it home. A car seat should have been one of your first purchases.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are they going to do, hold the baby hostage?

Presumably they can call CPS

Oh good lord, so now people are unfit parents for using their bodies the way God intended? (That means that walking, not driving.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are they going to do, hold the baby hostage?

Presumably they can call CPS

I don’t think they call CPS, they just don’t clear the baby to leave the premises.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cannot possibly be true? How could a hospital require you to have a car seat if you don’t have a car?

I got b****d out by a nurse for not taking the $500 parenting course because we had the car seat and the base and the baby seat was not on the newborn setting. After I was up all night in hard labor with pitocin, no epidural, had scare with a blue baby then they tortured me with sleep deprivation. Fun times.

Hopefully I’m misreading your post, because it sounds like you’re complaining in part that the hospital caught that you had the car seat installed improperly before you put your newborn in it to drive home. If so, you should be thanking them, not complaining.

[Anonymous]

You don't have to deliver in a hospital if you don't like their policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cannot possibly be true? How could a hospital require you to have a car seat if you don’t have a car?

I got b****d out by a nurse for not taking the $500 parenting course because we had the car seat and the base and the baby seat was not on the newborn setting. After I was up all night in hard labor with pitocin, no epidural, had scare with a blue baby then they tortured me with sleep deprivation. Fun times.

Hopefully I’m misreading your post, because it sounds like you’re complaining in part that the hospital caught that you had the car seat installed improperly before you put your newborn in it to drive home. If so, you should be thanking them, not complaining.

I think the point is that she didn't have an epidural, so that somehow means the child was safe in an improperly set up carseat.

I don't get it either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cannot possibly be true? How could a hospital require you to have a car seat if you don’t have a car?

I got b****d out by a nurse for not taking the $500 parenting course because we had the car seat and the base and the baby seat was not on the newborn setting. After I was up all night in hard labor with pitocin, no epidural, had scare with a blue baby then they tortured me with sleep deprivation. Fun times.

Hopefully I’m misreading your post, because it sounds like you’re complaining in part that the hospital caught that you had the car seat installed improperly before you put your newborn in it to drive home. If so, you should be thanking them, not complaining.

Or maybe they hadn’t switched the setting YET?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This cannot possibly be true? How could a hospital require you to have a car seat if you don’t have a car?

I got b****d out by a nurse for not taking the $500 parenting course because we had the car seat and the base and the baby seat was not on the newborn setting. After I was up all night in hard labor with pitocin, no epidural, had scare with a blue baby then they tortured me with sleep deprivation. Fun times.

Hopefully I’m misreading your post, because it sounds like you’re complaining in part that the hospital caught that you had the car seat installed improperly before you put your newborn in it to drive home. If so, you should be thanking them, not complaining.

Or maybe they hadn’t switched the setting YET?

Why would someone install a car seat for a newborn without properly setting it for the newborn at the time? It’s not like you just press a button and it adjusts itself.