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Your hospital stay: Going home

Before you and your baby leave the hospital, your nurses and health care provider will want to make sure:

Important

State law requires that all infants travel in an approved car seat. Your baby’s car seat should be rear-facing in the back seat of the car, ready for the ride home.

  • you can walk around by yourself
  • you know how to take care of yourself and your baby
  • you can urinate
  • you do not have a fever
  • you are not bleeding too much
  • you can manage your pain
  • if you have stitches, they have begun to heal
  • your baby has had at least two successful feedings or a follow-up plan is in place
  • your baby has had both wet and soiled diapers.

Home Care Visits

Talk with your health care provider about having a home visit by a home care nurse once you’re home from the hospital.

The home care nurse can come to your home to see how you and your baby are doing. The nurse will examine you and your baby. (This process is similar to exams given by nurses in the hospital.) This is also a time to get all of your questions answered in a relaxed, one-on-one visit.

If you would like, you can invite your partner and family members to be a part of this home visit. Most insurance companies cover this service.


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Source: Allina Patient Education, Beginnings: Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond, fifth edition, preg-ahc-90026, ISBN 1-931876-25-8

First published: 10/04/2002
Last updated: 05/01/2008

Reviewed by: Allina Patient Education experts

 


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