| Stacy, thanks for your reply! I feel a little less "lost at sea" than before.
At this hospital, the nurses aren't dually trained. The baby nurses handle the babies and the mommy nurses handle the mommies. So, for baby's blood sugar monitoring, he/she will have to go to the NICU. It's just the way they do things.
This is especially hard because I've been reading about how the best way to get baby's sugars up is to nurse right away. We're really anti-formula because of the ingredients in them and the health effects they cause, so it's doubly hard.
Our first, who will be three in January, was in the NICU for two weeks. At that hospital (different than the one where we live now) it was policy there for all babies to be in the NICU until they hit the 36 week mark. I don't think she would have been released much sooner than that, though. We waited 4 days to hold her and I waited 5 to breastfeed. It was really hard.
~ Mary | 
