A couple of hours after baby is born you will get transferred to a postpartum room. For the next 24-48 hours you will rest, practice feeding baby, ask all the questions you have to the postpartum nurses, you'll get fed (thought it will be hospital food) and you'll come down from the birth high. Your baby will also sleep quite a bit. In the first 24 hours baby is trying to sort themselves out after being born. Being born is exhausting and disorienting to babies. So they sleep,