Importance of Skin-to-skin Contact

Re: Importance of Skin-to-skin Contact

• idonthavethis

  April 2011

  Thanks for posting this.  I don't have a birth plan per se, but this is one thing that I want to do when I have this baby. The last time, they put her on my chest as soon as she came out just for a minute but then took her to the "bright lights" like the article said and gave her back swaddled.

  

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• Lisa and Mickey

  April 2011

  I think this was one of the worst things about my c/s- I did not even get to touch him for almost an hour, until I was in recovery. It just felt so wrong to me. I was told several times I was "spoiling" him because I picked him up as soon as he cried and held him all the time, but I firmly believe babies need to be held like they need to eat. It's not just preference. He was in the NICU for 5 days and the time he spent in a bassinet not being held and loved on breaks my hear every time I think about it.
  

  
  

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• idonthavethis

  April 2011

  Lisa and Mickey:

  I think this was one of the worst things about my c/s- I did not even get to touch him for almost an hour, until I was in recovery. It just felt so wrong to me. I was told several times I was "spoiling" him because I picked him up as soon as he cried and held him all the time, but I firmly believe babies need to be held like they need to eat. It's not just preference. He was in the NICU for 5 days and the time he spent in a bassinet not being held and loved on breaks my hear every time I think about it.
  

  I hate when people say that about babies too. I held Ava all the time when she was a newborn and now she is a well-adjusted, outgoing, non-clingy two year old.  (well other than the fact she's in my bed but I blame that on laziness on my part..ha ha)

  

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• anonsouthernbell member

  April 2011

  idonthavethis:

  Thanks for posting this.  I don't have a birth plan per se, but this is one thing that I want to do when I have this baby. The last time, they put her on my chest as soon as she came out just for a minute but then took her to the "bright lights" like the article said and gave her back swaddled.

   

  You are more than welcome.
  

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• anonsouthernbell member

  April 2011

  Lisa and Mickey:

  I think this was one of the worst things about my c/s- I did not even get to touch him for almost an hour, until I was in recovery. It just felt so wrong to me. I was told several times I was "spoiling" him because I picked him up as soon as he cried and held him all the time, but I firmly believe babies need to be held like they need to eat. It's not just preference. He was in the NICU for 5 days and the time he spent in a bassinet not being held and loved on breaks my hear every time I think about it.
  

   

  :hugs: that must have be so hard!  And ITA w/you.  You can't spoil a baby!
  

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• anonsouthernbell member

  April 2011

  idonthavethis:

  I hate when people say that about babies too. I held Ava all the time when she was a newborn and now she is a well-adjusted, outgoing, non-clingy two year old.  (well other than the fact she's in my bed but I blame that on laziness on my part..ha ha)

  Same w/my son.  And I don't remember where I read the article or I'd post a link for you, but there are a whole host of benefits for toddlers and co-sleeping.  (M still sleeps w/us too.  I think that I will get a toddler bed and put it in our room to give him the option of sleeping in there or w/us.  He eventually will transition to his room, but it works for us right now so I figure why change things up).
  

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• Lisa and Mickey

  April 2011

  anonsouthernbell:

  idonthavethis:

  I hate when people say that about babies too. I held Ava all the time when she was a newborn and now she is a well-adjusted, outgoing, non-clingy two year old.  (well other than the fact she's in my bed but I blame that on laziness on my part..ha ha)

  Same w/my son.  And I don't remember where I read the article or I'd post a link for you, but there are a whole host of benefits for toddlers and co-sleeping.  (M still sleeps w/us too.  I think that I will get a toddler bed and put it in our room to give him the option of sleeping in there or w/us.  He eventually will transition to his room, but it works for us right now so I figure why change things up).
  

  We bed share too and I was just started thinking about getting a toddler bed and putting it in our room to start. We have a crib that he has never been in. I truly think that the bed sharing started because I was trying to "make up" for the time I didn't have with him right away. It was never our intention to bed share, but that's where we are.
  

  
  

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• KrisM86 member

  April 2011

  Thank you for posting this! Every parent should be aware of the importance of early and frequent skin to skin contact and the benefits for mom and baby!

  

  
  

  

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