So after I had my baby I got to spend a short amount of time with him in our room before people started to bug us with tests and vitals and all of that important stuff, which I understand. My babies temperature and sugar were low so people were in and out a little more frequently checking those things. Well... About 8 hours after we had him they took him to the special nursery to monitor him, after which they decided to take him to the NICU where he spent the next 5 days.

Now I know some mom's go months without seeing their baby and that plenty of people of situations worse than mine. But I just can't help but feel like my husband and I got cheated out of our first week with our baby. We didn't get to bond with him in the hospital, family couldn't come visit him, we didn't get to take him home with us. For being my first child I had this idea of how everything should go and I just feel like we just got robbed of our happy time with our brand new baby. :(