The opinions and experience recorded in the links I provided were not mine, and were delivered by professionals with the exception of the moms, of course.
In 1970, the average length of stay for all hospital deliveries was 4.1 days in the United States!
That's like 9 years after 1961, or are you suggesting that there were no changes between 1961 and 1970.
I'm sorry that having your child was such a traumatic experience for you. In most cases, it's not.
Having a first baby for most women I have known (are you a man?), and me too, is a big, life changing experience. Along with the physical changes, not to mention discomfort, and hormonal adjustments comes a new tiny person to care for and a host of questions and concerns. That doesn't make it traumatic, it makes it big and new and exhausting - the kind of thing women like to have their mothers around for to ask questions of and get support.
I was born long before the 1960's and my mother never spent more than four days in the hospital for any of her many children!
I'm sure you're telling the truth. That doesn't mean your mother would have been willing or able to get on a plane a short time after giving birth to her first child for a trip half way around the world.
The point to noting hospital stays in the '60s is to point out that there is a bit more to the birth of a first child than birthers seem to think.