Can you leave hospital with baby without a car seat?

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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.

They will if you pitch a fit and try to leave AMA and/or the head nurse happens to be PMSing.

[Anonymous]

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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.

1. The epidural part is to bring up that I had a difficult birth
2. We didn't own a car at the time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a second degree tear and was bleeding like a stuck pig when they sent me home from the hospital. And I would assume it would be worse pain with a Csection

This and I was farting uncontrollably.

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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.

I dunno. Maybe that was the setting it was left on from the previous kid who used it. Maybe they quickly grabbed it out of storage for their walk to the hospital next door so they would be permitted to take their baby home? Could be any number of reasons, but I guarantee they’re more concerned about their baby’s safety than you are...

[Anonymous]

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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.

We didn't set it up. We committed the sin of remembering that the nurse checks the seat before you leave and thinking they would help us. I'm sorry mistress, where can I give penance? When we called a cab we asked for someone who knows how to install a car seat, was that a sin for your royal highness too? Or was the sin giving birth while too poor to afford a car. I must know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eh, it depends on how the delivery goes. I could easily walk for 20-30 minutes within a day after all three of mine. But I was lucky and had super easy deliveries...

I has been on bedrest, so my legs didn't quite work anymore. Plus the tear ...

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This cannot possibly be true? How could a hospital require you to have a car seat if you don’t have a car?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

1. The epidural part is to bring up that I had a difficult birth
2. We didn't own a car at the time [/quote]

The difficult birth is a red herring because it has nothing to do with car seats.

Did you walk home with the baby?

[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.)

Got wouldn’t have allowed cars to be invented if he didn’t intend for us to use them.

[Anonymous]

Also, if you have a preemie, they have to pass the car seat test to be discharged. They have to be able to sit in your carseat for a period of time without setting off alarms.

[Anonymous]

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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.

We didn't set it up. We committed the sin of remembering that the nurse checks the seat before you leave and thinking they would help us. I'm sorry mistress, where can I give penance? When we called a cab we asked for someone who knows how to install a car seat, was that a sin for your royal highness too? Or was the sin giving birth while too poor to afford a car. I must know.

You made a mistake by not setting up the car seat and then expecting everyone around you, including the cab driver, would know how to do it safely for you. Instead of acknowledging that it was a mistake, though, you’re apparently doubling down on it and throwing blame at everyone around you.

Parents make mistakes. Good parents learn from them rather than trying to justify them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, if you have a preemie, they have to pass the car seat test to be discharged. They have to be able to sit in your carseat for a period of time without setting off alarms.

That’s not just for preemies. One of mine (who was full-term) spent a week in the NICU due to unexpected birth complications, and we also had to do the car seat test before they would discharge her.

[Anonymous]

My mom is an OB at a hospital that’s popular with Hasidic Jews. They can ride in a car to give birth but walk home on the sabbath.

I had an easy labor and was a bit pissed they made me sit in the wheel chair to leave the hospital. But no on was going to hold the baby. They pushed me while I held the car seat (Dh was getting the car- you can’t leave the car running to get your wife)

[Anonymous]

I knew quite a few people who didn’t have car seats or car seats set up when they went into labor too early. But the husbands just had to figure it out or run to target before discharge.

[Anonymous]

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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.

We didn't set it up. We committed the sin of remembering that the nurse checks the seat before you leave and thinking they would help us. I'm sorry mistress, where can I give penance? When we called a cab we asked for someone who knows how to install a car seat, was that a sin for your royal highness too? Or was the sin giving birth while too poor to afford a car. I must know.

You made a mistake by not setting up the car seat and then expecting everyone around you, including the cab driver, would know how to do it safely for you. Instead of acknowledging that it was a mistake, though, you’re apparently doubling down on it and throwing blame at everyone around you.

Parents make mistakes. Good parents learn from them rather than trying to justify them.

DP, but lady, I hope some busybody calls CPS on you at some point in your life because they don’t like the way you’re parenting. That would allow you to learn from your “mistakes*”....

(* which apparently includes not having YOUR carseat adjusted on SOMEONE ELSE’S schedule...)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eh, it depends on how the delivery goes. I could easily walk for 20-30 minutes within a day after all three of mine. But I was lucky and had super easy deliveries...

I had the same experience BUT I don't think you can count on this. It's luck, as you say.