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Skin-to-skin contact following a cesarean birth - link

julyjenniferjulyjennifer member
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I also posted this in response to the 'scared of c-section' post below, but thought it deserved it's own post. 

A link to a blog post about pushing for the option of skin-to-skin contact following a cesarean birth, with a great pic of mom doing just that! 

https://singlemomontherun.com/2012/05/05/skin-to-skin-contact-following-birth-fight-for-it/
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Re: Skin-to-skin contact following a cesarean birth - link

  • LindseyJWLindseyJW member
    this is also a wonderful option for women who wanted the "natural" birth experience but instead will have a surgical birth:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5RIcaK98Yg
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  • LaurelBeeLaurelBee member
    Thanks for reposting this! I missed it in the cs thread. Very interesting! It makes me sad that I missed out on skin to skin with Ds. I didn't know enough to ask them for it, and Ds's 1st apgar was only 4. By time I got to hold him, he was swaddled...
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  • julyjenniferjulyjennifer member

    imageLaurelBee:
    Thanks for reposting this! I missed it in the cs thread. Very interesting! It makes me sad that I missed out on skin to skin with Ds. I didn't know enough to ask them for it, and Ds's 1st apgar was only 4. By time I got to hold him, he was swaddled...

    One thing I don't think necessarily comes out loud and clear in the blog post is that there are probably still times where it's just not possible to do immediate skin-to-skin, maybe the baby truly does need to be whisked away to be helped out.  But I think it's good for people to know that in many cases it is an option.

    I, too, didn't get to hold my first until she was 5 minutes old and swaddled, and I even had a normal unmedicated hospital birth.  There was meconium in the amniotic fluid so they took her across the room immediately as a precaution to check.  It bothers me too.  I feel they could have checked her on me while we were skin-to-skin without prematurely cutting the cord.

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