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TwilightGardener

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3. I left the hospital fairly early with my second baby, 24 hours after he was born instead

Reply to Ykcutnek (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 01:05 PM

Dec 2014

of 48 hours--against medical advice, in fact. He was eating, pooping, not much in the way of jaundice, he was fine. If he hadn't been fine, I would have immediately rushed him back to the hospital. I had a toddler who was being mostly watched by a sitter (no family nearby) and a husband who wasn't allowed much time off, I was an experienced mom by that point, and I simply had to get home. This lady left a little early for comfort, IMO, but unless there's a law that says a healthy-appearing newborn must stay in a hospital for a certain length of time (or even be in a hospital at all--how about home births?) the authorities way overstepped their bounds.

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This Mom Checked Her Newborn Out of the Hospital Early, The Next Day Her Baby Was Taken Away [View all] Ykcutnek Dec 2014 OP

Speechless! -nt Anansi1171 Dec 2014 #1

Maybe she'll have a homebirth next time. Crunchy Frog Dec 2014 #2

I left the hospital fairly early with my second baby, 24 hours after he was born instead TwilightGardener Dec 2014 #3

why all the drug testing -- oh more from the article belzabubba333 Dec 2014 #4