Not exact matches
Whether it is your first child or your third, many
times there are
different questions lingering in your mind about your pregnancy,
birth and what happens
after the baby arrives.
As every
birth is
different, the amount of
time you spend in the hospital
after will depend on how straightforward or complicated your
birth was.
But a big first step, which happens at
different times for
different mothers — at
different hospitals — is to be moved from the actual delivery room to the recovery room, where the mother and often the baby will stay for something like 48 hours
after the
birth.
This may be
different in other countries, but it is not unexpected in the Netherlands, where home
birth has been an approved option for a long
time.1 5 12
After background variables were controlled for, the perinatal outcome for primiparous women with low risk pregnancies was similar for those who planned home
births and those who planned hospital
births.