I don't have great "home from the hospital" advice. I'm sure if I could do it over, knowing what I know now, I'd do better, but it didn't go that well at the time.
We thought we wouldn't want anyone at home with us for the first week or so. My husband would be off work, there were two of us and two of them, how hard could it be, right? For us -- wrong.
It took us a long time to be ready to leave the hospital. Nurse the babies, get them dressed, oh, this one is hungry again... Finally we got going; my parents followed us home in their car, but stopped on the way to get pain medication for me. Then they came over to help us get a little bit settled, and left way sooner than I wanted them to.
Somehow, inexplicably, we didn't get those babies into their (shared) crib until 11 PM. Maybe we were in the mode of feed, change diaper, "oh they're fussy let's try nursing" when instead we should have tried to get them to sleep when they were fussing. I don't know.
I guess my advice is to try to pay attention to how things go in the hospital and try to stay on a similar routine at first.
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