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Our experience at the hospital, was actually wonderful.
We had talked about whether or not we would be in the room when our daughter was born, and really honestly, neither of us were comfortable with it. My husband had said definitely NO.
However, when we got the call to fly to CA, that our birthmother was in labor, we were on the plane on the way to CA, we found out that it was false labor. So due to the circumstances we got to CA and no baby yet, so we got to meet the birth mother before hand, and she asked us to be in there with her if we wanted to. When the time came a couple of days later, we were in the room, my husband cut the chord, and he would not have changed a thing about it.
Luckily for us, the hospital was wonderful. They were very open to us being in there, they gave us pretty much as much access to information as the birth mother had. I also had one of the hospital bracelets myself, so that I could actually take the baby out of the nursery. One thing though, there was NO ONE from the adoption agency at the hospital. A social worker was supposed to be there, but she was not there either. So we really had no one in person that we could talk to if we had questions. We were able to contact our agency by phone at any time though. The social worker did show up at the time to be released so that she could do the paperwork releasing the baby from the hospital into our custody.
So be prepared, to not have an agency staff member at the hospital. Just be flexible with the birth mother's wishes and the hospital's policies.
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