Family Nest Hotel (after childbirth), Meilahti

You can transfer to the Family Nest Hotel from Women's Hospital at the earliest six hours after childbirth by using a minibus. You can also use your own car, but parking spaces are limited in the area surrounding the hotel.

The mother's meals are included in the patient fee. Other persons staying in the room must pay for their meals. The hotel offers the possibility to have meals in the restaurant downstairs and you can also take your meal with you to your room in a take-away container. There is also a hamburger restaurant and a grocery store in the building.

At the Family Nest Hotel, you can wear your own clothes, so please bring some spare clothes for yourself and the baby. The rooms are equipped with the same equipment and accessories as the hospital: a baby crib, changing table, diapers, sanitary napkins and towels.

The mother and newborn can transfer to the Family Nest Hotel from the maternity unit 6–12 hours after childbirth.

Mother

• The mother does not have an underlying condition affecting postpartum recovery or neonatal monitoring
• There is no substance-abuse problem or acute psychosocial issues in the family, and the mother has not been on any mood-altering medication after 20 weeks of gestation
• The mother speaks and understands Finnish, Swedish or English fluently. A mother who can use the Túlka telephone app can also move to the Family Nest Hotel
• Normal pregnancy
• Well-controlled gestational diabetes (no medication for diabetes), child of normal weight
• Vaginal delivery (including uncomplicated vacuum-assisted or breech delivery)
• No inflammatory symptoms during childbirth (fever ≥ 38.0 °c)
• Hemorrhage less than 1,000 ml
• Urination has been successful, no indwelling catheter or need for intermittent catheterization
• Mother without child, if the above criteria are met

Child

• Healthy, nothing abnormal during monitoring
• Pregnancy weeks ≥ 38+0 
• Birth weight ≥ 2,800 g and < 4,500 g, -2.0 to +2.0 SD
• 1 min Apgar score > 6, umbilical artery pH ≥ 7.10
• Temperature 36.5–37.5 °C
• Heart rate 100–160/min, respiration < 60/min, oxygen saturation > 95%. The child's respiratory rate, pulse, temperature and oxygen saturation are normal when measured at least twice
• Any previous children have not had any neonatal problems that could recur (e.g. neonatal GBS infection, early jaundice)
• Time of rupture of the fetal membranes and a GBS finding do not affect the transfer to the hotel
• The child has received vitamin K
• The child has breastfed or eaten in another way
• The first blood glucose level of a child being monitored for blood glucose is normal (≥2.8 mmol/l)