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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get the annoyance with sleep disturbance from random nurse checks, that’s a separate issue.[b] But those of you who are annoyed that you couldn’t send your baby away all night - what did you do when you get home? Did your support system get better? If so, why couldn’t you implement that support system in the hospital?[/b]

I could not imagine sending a healthy non-NICU-requiring baby away all night to strangers, right after it had been born, after it had been with me for 9 months. It sounds so weird to even write it down![/quote]

What changed is that I recovered from my c-section. There’s a huge difference in taking care of a newborn 4 hours after a c-section versus even four days.  The multiple layers of my body that were cut through began to heal.  The pain became less which meant I took fewer pain meds that are not safe to take while driving a car (so why are women taking them and solely taking care of a newborn?).  Because I became more mobile, basic tasks like changing the baby, picking something I dropped off of the floor, turning on the lights, walking to the bathroom etc became easier.  It was simply time.  [/quote]

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