Stupid Question for Ladies that had Scheduled C-Sections

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I'm curious if you brought your hospital bag in with you to your scheduled c, or if you left it in your car and had H retrieve it after you are settled in your room? I believe on the day of we will be moving from triage for fluids to the OR to recovery and finally to our suite, so I'm not sure what we would even do with our bag that whole time. We could leave it in the car but the parking garage is really far from our section of the hospital and I'm sure I won't want H leaving us so soon after the babies are here.

This is probably a stupid question and I don't even know why I'm worrying about it, but I have a week to go and I'm having anxiety about every aspect of that whole day. This is my newest anxiety so please indulge me .

[ashb62]

We were told to leave it in the car until we were in our room. There's really nowhere to keep it. My clothes were put in a plastic patient bag after I changed into my gown. DH went and got my bag and the babies' bag once we left recovery and were in a room on the mother/baby unit.

[beachy]

Yeah just leave it in the car. And you won't need it immediately. Like PP said I didn't touch the bag until the next day.

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Thanks all! We'll just leave the bag in the car.

[anotherdreamer]

Ask the hospital. We left most of our stuff in the car until after, but we had some things in the room- they just brought our stuff over. Every hospital will have a different policy.

[anakah]

With the twins my parents were waiting in the waiting room when I went into surgery so they kept my bag. With ds2 we left it in the car until later. I didn't need the bag until much later anyways.

[carrotcake]

You won't need your bag right away, so it's fine to leave in the car. If you have any absolute essentials, pack a larger purse.

My c/s w the twins was emergency and H didn't go home to even pack my bag until close to 24hrs after they were born.

[julie216]

@sassycassieb, great question! After reading the responses, will most likely keep it in the car!