Well, the big day has finally arrived, the day of going home with your baby. You have spent a minimum of three days in a hospital room that have elapsed between countless visits, family, friends, hospital staff and just missing a commercial. It is very likely that you have had the busier agenda than a government president.
With all the mess of the last few days you have hardly stopped to think that today it will be Your first day outside the hospital. Let's not get nervous, this day was supposed to come, now let's try to think what is all we have to do.
First move
It seems a lie, but these days you have managed to fill all the space enabled for you and would have filled much more if you had had it. Gifts, clothes, diapers, flowers, chocolates, more flowers, more chocolates accumulate in the room. "Look honey, I just found the boy under the coats."
First tip: Hospitals, especially public ones, are not characterized by their large closets. So try as far as possible, do not take gifts to the hospital or ask for help from someone you trust to take home or for example, in my case, when I went home to take a shower I took several things and still I had to take a trip with the car that looked like the Interflora delivery man.
The exit from the hospital
Remember that you have to date three things: the child, the most important. The discharge papers, If you want to collect the leave I would not leave them in the hospital. The birth certificate or the yellow paper (I think it is still yellow), that where it is officially said how big and beautiful your son was born and who should be asked for responsibilities in the future. In the case of the male parent or parent who has not given birth, I remind you that it is convenient not to forget about the still convalescent mother, since you tend to think that the day you are discharged is like a rose and not made ones Foxes which is how most mothers usually go out (with the exception of the famous ones, who all come out of death from death and should be denounced for misleading advertising).
Good. Once we have all the ingredients and dressings for our new controlled family, we can prepare to kick off. Moment of panic We have it all? And if it's bad, do we go out and something happens? You don't see him in a strange color? Call the doctor.
Twenty minutes later and with the certification of good health signed by the set of pediatricians of the hospital, three midwives and a cardiovascular surgeon who was passing by, we are finally at the exit door. And the car? Where did you leave the car?
Panic Normally, the feeling of "where I have parked" lasts no more than what usually lasts on a Monday first thing when you leave the portal to work.
It is normal for the father to have moved him in previous days when he went home, but we already know that "normal" does not have to be our case, so relax and think, if it were a future first-time father who arrives all nervous to the hospital with a woman with contractions every ten minutes, where would she leave the car parked? and relax, surely it will appear sooner or later. For these cases I think there are mobile applications that tell you where your car is parked. Another option would be to call your mother, they always know where we left everything.
Once we have located our means of transport, if it is on the other side of the parking lot, and we will say that in these cases, taking a step with an episiotomy, the scar of a caesarean section or simply having recently given birth is already a triumph, 200 meters, is the other side of the city, so the best will be bring the car
A long trip back home
Well, we're close to the car. My advice here is that the mother feels as soon as she arrives (assuming you have been careful to keep the car keys located). At this point two things can happen: That we have not installed the chair to take the new family member. If it is a Maxi-cosi type or an adapted cuckoo, the problem is not very serious because its placement is not very complicated. If it is a chair for different groups, such as those from group 0 to 2, then Huston has a problem. If it is already quite complicated to set taking it easy I do not even want to tell you what it will be like in the middle of a parking lot with a newborn. I can't tell you anything except luck.
Than The chair is already fixed. Now we have to leave that little creature with the appearance of a Bohemian crystal figure and the size of a cute kitten in a cabin adapted to something the size of Garfield.
Panic
Nothing happens, quiet, for that all these junk carry a lot of adapters, reducers and various pads so that your child does not hit the walls. And yes, it is the big problem of newborns; The world, in general, is huge.
Once you are all in the car conveniently attached to your respective seats, you are ready for the wonderful journey back home. Yes, at five per hour.
As I guess it's going to be you, dad, who drives. I will tell you that it will be as if you carry two boxes of nitroglycerin in the trunk. Road potholes are not detected by maintenance people, who are going. They are detected by parents returning with their newborn children home. These are the moments when you would like to have a kind talk with the city councilor of your city, about the need to fill the streets with soundtracks.
We are already at home, now what?
Finally at home. Your home, the one you have been preparing for the arrival of your son. It is the dream moment ... The dream moment until the new one of the trio begins to cry, and that is when you really realize that you are alone! Panic
- And what will happen to him? -I don't know, will you be hungry? -What time did he eat? -I know, with all this mess I don't even remember. What do we do? -Well, give it a tit, or a bibe. Do I prepare a sandwich? - Peanut butter if you think! Already, it has already calmed down. I was hungry
And you both look at each other and think, "This has been our first day alone, there are only 18 more years left"
Courage, you're sure to make it phenomenal. A little practice and everything controlled.
