<p>So, I have seen a lot of mention of Babymoons on here with posts to people who have had their babies etc. I have a general idea of what this would involve to but was wondering what this specifically means to you guys when you think of this time? </p>
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<p>With DD we did not really get a long relaxing time at home after her birth - she was born with a teratoma (don't google it - hers was really small and totally not like most on the Internet - as usual). It is basically a stem cell tumor (benign), in her case growing from the tailbone.</p>
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<p>It was not a immediate/emergency situation so she was still rooming in with me at the hospital. BF happened pretty much right away etc. We went home in the normal time frame and had 1 or 2 nights at home before going to the NICU for an overnight stay for an MRI, then home again for a couple days before her surgery at 1 week old - 5 days in the NICU with that I think. </p>
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<p>Surprisingly the whole thing was not as awful and stressful as you might think. Our NICU was awesome, BFing went really well and the NICU was super supportive of that - I slept there and they called me throughout the night whenever she woke up to eat. They would have a rocking chair and everything all ready for me and even called the lactation consultant for me for some advice with a minor issue we had. The whole time I could see those little preemies and I just felt lucky for my full term healthy baby.</p>
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<p>Anyway, despite making the best of the situation we sort of missed out on any kind of restful babymoon at home.... and (hopefully) plan to have this and enforce something like it this time. What kind of things do you guys plan or have you done in the past? Do you limit visitors and how has that worked for you? If you have older kids how does this play into your babymoon plans etc?</p>
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<p>PS. spell check keeps wanting to replace BFing with barfing... lol.</p>
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<p>With DD we did not really get a long relaxing time at home after her birth - she was born with a teratoma (don't google it - hers was really small and totally not like most on the Internet - as usual). It is basically a stem cell tumor (benign), in her case growing from the tailbone.</p>
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<p>It was not a immediate/emergency situation so she was still rooming in with me at the hospital. BF happened pretty much right away etc. We went home in the normal time frame and had 1 or 2 nights at home before going to the NICU for an overnight stay for an MRI, then home again for a couple days before her surgery at 1 week old - 5 days in the NICU with that I think. </p>
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<p>Surprisingly the whole thing was not as awful and stressful as you might think. Our NICU was awesome, BFing went really well and the NICU was super supportive of that - I slept there and they called me throughout the night whenever she woke up to eat. They would have a rocking chair and everything all ready for me and even called the lactation consultant for me for some advice with a minor issue we had. The whole time I could see those little preemies and I just felt lucky for my full term healthy baby.</p>
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<p>Anyway, despite making the best of the situation we sort of missed out on any kind of restful babymoon at home.... and (hopefully) plan to have this and enforce something like it this time. What kind of things do you guys plan or have you done in the past? Do you limit visitors and how has that worked for you? If you have older kids how does this play into your babymoon plans etc?</p>
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<p>PS. spell check keeps wanting to replace BFing with barfing... lol.</p>