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To add a note given our own experience, labor and delivery depts tend to be on pretty heavy security around here. We're talking wrist bands for everyone, locked and monitored entries, etc., because people kidnap babies (usually fathers w/o custody or have ill intent). Plus, mistaken indenties happen so you get a matching band with your kid.

They also almost always have post-labor care mandatory since you're practically wheelchair bound after such a traumatic experience. No just walking out of there, you physically can't.

All that is to say, yes, you have to give your name and information and no, you're not just getting a baby to go. They don't exactly want a rando entering and leaving with someone's child, even by accident. You do have some rights though, at least around here, since for some reason we still respect even the craziest of religious rationals (like no meds at all).