I had gotten her a tinner cotton receiving blanket because like you I really wanted to have something to bring her home it and then to keep. We swaddled her in it and took her hospital pictures in it and used it to cover her in her car seat for a few Dr. App. I've since turned it into a little stuffed animal for her.
@Sarah could you give me a link to what you got/ something similar?
Here is the brand and it's made of bamboo not cotten, sorry.
We switched my daughter out of all the hospital things into our own real quick lol. Sheets, blankets. Clothes. Hat. Everything. We did take the hospital brand home tho for keepsake but she was in what we brought and washed.
I had a baby in February and it was 63° the day we came home from the hospital. Unusual for my area so we didn’t use a blanket. I just brought my baby home in the sleeper I wanted