Patients/Care period
Baby/Delivery takes care of normal and complicated deliveries, as well as women who have yet to give birth and who have complicated pregnancies.
We arrange discharge according to the patient's wishes and care requirements. Patients who have had a normal delivery can go home within 48 hours. You are then offered daily telephone contact and a follow-up visit to the midwife within 5 days of delivery for the PKU test on the baby. This visit can be used to ask questions and to obtain help with breastfeeding.
Family room
At the Växjö Baby ward we can, if space permits, offer family rooms where even dads and siblings can live during the care period. Here the family can get to know the baby and care for it together in peace and quiet.
The cost for the dad is SEK 100 per night, including breakfast. Dad can buy dinner at the restaurant in the hospital.
Meal times and Day room
The food that is served at the Baby unit is prepared by the Strandbjörket restaurant, which is our hospital kitchen, and is known for the quality and variety of its food.
Food is served at the buffet in the day room.
- Breakfast 7.30am - 10am
- Lunch 11.45am - 1.30pm
- Afternoon coffee 2pm
- Dinner 4.45pm - 6.30pm
- Evening coffee 7pm
Dads cannot order lunch and dinner, but dads are welcome to buy coffee and breakfast. The Strandbjörket restaurant also offers a three course menu, Monday - Friday, if you want to celebrate a bit more up in the Baby ward. The menu and price list can be found up in the ward.
Patient telephone
It is possible to have your own telephone during your stay at the Baby ward. You can call out at any time and your friends and relations can reach you between 07.00 - 9pm. You have your own telephone number. Remember not to give out your telephone number to too many friends, since a lot of calls can be annoying when you are breastfeeding and resting after the delivery. When you are later discharged the telephone is cut off and the cost is around SEK 15 per day plus call units. Payment is made via your home telephone subscription.
If you want to call directly from the delivery room you will need a telephone card or payment card. If you choose to use a mobile telephone, you must use it outside the hospital, since it can interfere with some medical equipment.
Visiting times
Dad and siblings can visit when they like. Relatives and friends can visit you outside the ward in a visiting room. You can decide yourself how many visits you want to have. Remember to arrange the time and ask the visitors to wait in the visiting room!
Delivery review
We offer all those who give birth here the opportunity to review the delivery with a midwife. This is normally done one or two days after the delivery.
Discharge interview
Interview with the midwife before discharge. This is used to provide both verbal and written information about
- The period after delivery and things such as bleeding, discharges, after-effects, pelvic floor exercises
- Healing of tears/cuts, operation scars
- Contraceptives
- Breastfeeding
- The baby
- Follow-up visit to the Breastfeeding and Follow-up unit
- BVC
Training after delivery
Giving birth to a baby is an incredible experience. During your stay at the Baby ward you often don't have time to think much about yourself - everything revolves around the baby. Only after a few days at home do you usually start to "find your feet". Many people have a guilty conscience because they don't have the time or the energy to exercise as they had planned.
Relax! It is completely natural for it to take some time before you get going.
During pregnancy, the muscles are subjected to great stress through hormonal changes and the weight of the baby. The delivery and the baby's passage through the pelvis produces additional stresses. It is therefore very important to condition the muscles now, so that they regain their former strength. When the muscles are flaccid, they cannot fulfil their function and the risk of uterine prolapse and problems holding urine increases, especially when coughing, laughing or exercising. Another reason to exercise your pelvis is that your sex life will be more enjoyable with well-functioning muscles.
Clench!
Clench together the sphincter around the rectum - clench forward and upwards around the mouth of the vagina and urethra as if you are going to pass water but cannot. Continue to clench upwards so that you get a feeling that something is being lifted up "inside" you. When you have found the right muscles clench them hard for 5 seconds.
Then relax for at least the same amount of time, repeat this maximum clench two or three times initially, and then increase to 10 repetitions when you are more practiced. Ensure that you breath normally while doing this. It is important to integrate the exercise into your daily routine, so that it really gets going.
Repeat the clenching exercises 5-8 times a day.
Exercise your stomach muscles!
After a few weeks you can exercise your stomach muscles by doing sit ups normally and obliquely. This produces good stomach muscles, a flatter stomach and support for the back.
Shrug your shoulders!
The shoulders can become tense during breastfeeding, cradling and lulling. Many people find it difficult to relax. Someone could massage you, a warm shower can also feel pleasant
Get out and walk!
A brisk walk with the pram a few times a week will increase your fitness and you will feel more lively and have more energy.
Any training harder than this, like intensive jogging and aerobics with lots of jumping, should be avoided for the first few months.
If you had a Caesarean section...
After a Caesarean you should take things easy for the first 4-6 weeks, with oblique and straight sit ups.
Avoid carrying and lifting heavy items, do not lift anything heavier than your baby. Start exercising with short walks.
Do not forget pelvic floor exercises.
Remember:
- To arrange things practically at home - e.g. nursing table at a suitable height.
- A good chair to sit and breastfeed, so that the baby rests properly when breastfeeding.
- That life is here and now!
- Forget about what you "ought" to be doing and instead spend time with your baby and your family.
Telephone assistance
is provided round the clock by midwives in the Baby department on matters like:
- Breastfeeding
- Advice on infants
- Advice on women's health during pregnancy
- Advice on women's health after delivery