Hospital stay

Yes! I think if I slept for 2 hours it's a lot 😂 I was full of emotions, nurses kept coming in and out and I would check on baby a lot. The sleep deprivation is real but it gets better xx

My baby was delivered by emergency c section and arrived at 0233. I lost a lot of blood and needed to be monitored in recovery for a long time before going to a room. By the time we got to a room it was 0630. Then shift change and rounds. Then the sun came up and bled through the blinds. Like you I was exhausted but also wide awake. I tried so hard to rest like they told us to but it felt impossible. And the beds are sooo uncomfortable. I didn’t really sleep until we got home and even then the baby was up so frequently. Good luck, momma.

Yep didn't sleep at all night 1, felt wired and figured it was adrenaline/hormonal? and constant attention for monitoring didn't help.

Yeah it’s really really hard on the ward - the best thing I can recommend is trying to have whatever sleep you can if you have someone come and visit who can watch the baby, so you can ‘switch off’. Same goes for when you’re home. And congratulations!! It’s hard but you’ve got this x

I don’t remember the first night lol so i probably didn’t sleep

With both my babies i couldn't sleep. It was like the adrenaline was too high. With my second, I swear I could feel my heart rate slowing as I began to doze and it made me feel like I was dying (idk, brain was all haywire after birth lol) so i was honestly scared to fall asleep that night 😅 Second night I was SO tired and wanted to sleep and both my kids were awake and MAD second night, so no sleep there. I was so exhausted I fell asleep holding my daughter (which can be really dangerous in those hospital beds. The nurse walked in and that woke me up but boy was I freaked out when I woke up)

You will get better sleep at home. I had to be re-admitted within a week of my son's birth and they put me in a private room on the ward. Even then was kept awake with the chatter and them having to check my BP every four hours

I’m a Mother/Baby nurse and whenever I come in the room. Dad and baby sleep, but Mom is awoke

I was a in for 2 nights and hallucinated 😂 The ward was so noisy with all the babies.

I only survived on a ward by taking an eye mask, AirPods for white noise and my own blanket. Made it so much comfier and enjoyable x

I refused to sleep, thinking my baby would die to SIDS. I stayed up for 37 hours straight cause I was so afraid. Eventually the nurses came in and took my baby to the nurse office and said they'd watch her so I could sleep, realising I wouldn't sleep unless someone was actually staring at my sleeping baby. I so afraid of SIDS the first few months 😰

In Toronto, Canada you typically stay 2 nights when you have a c section. For me night 2 was the WORST with the constant nurse visits but also “second night syndrome” which I wasn’t aware of/nurses didn’t mention. I read about it on a pamphlet AFTER night 2 (hospital gave us a bunch of reading materials post delivery but that was the last thing we wanted to do)…

I don’t think I slept for the first week I was running purely off adrenaline and now don’t remember much of the first few weeks so I think I was just not with it at all

I didn't sleep when I was in the hospital, luckily I went home the day after my c section x

So hard to sleep in post natal ward. At least at home there will only be the baby keeping you up and they won’t be woken up by everyone…

Same, every rare moment I finally fall asleep there were someone coming in the room… And baby cried every hour And also at the beginning I was so amazed to finally hold my baby, even the nurses was telling me sleep when baby sleeps I didn’t want to put him in his bed I just wanted to look at him in my arms 🥹 It felt like we spent 10days in the hospital but no it was just 1nigyt 2days 😅

We were in hospital for 6 days as baby was poorly and in neonatal and i think i slept a total of about 2 hours the whole time we were there😂 but as soon as i was home it was so much easier to sleep! Also never appreciated a duvet more in my life than i did that first night home😂

I had an emergency c-section at 5:30am after 15 hours in labour. When I was put on the ward later in the morning, there were workmen outside all day cutting trees down so couldn't get any sleep for the constant revving chainsaws and petrol fumes 🫠. Then on the night, the woman in the bed opposite me kept ringing the buzzer for assistance constantly to ask stupid questions then proceeded to have long, loud chats with the midwives all through night (I got the impression they were friends). That paired with them wanting to check my BP every couple of hours and I got no sleep again. It was so bad I was almost falling asleep while holding the baby nursing him next day 😩

Yup 😂 the most I slept was probably after my c section I had baby almost 12 and woke up at 5 almost 6 but after I was up I couldn’t sleep

Yes. I was awake from 4:30 Thursday morning until Thursday when I got home. Doctor told me she could discharge me the next day or I could stay another day or two I said get me out please

I was there for 4 days I didn’t get much sleep with nurses coming in to check us every 2 hours and then in between that during the day my Dr, pediatrician, and lactation consultants. I was ready to go home and sleeeep

LO and I were in the neonatal transitional ward for a week after birth I'm pretty sure I had some sort of mental breakdown from exhaustion around day 4 it's all just a haze...

I had been awake like 36 hours when I finally fell asleep after having my son. Contractions had started the day before & I couldn’t sleep through them.