When baby is born...

Re: When baby is born...

• vballgirl78 member

  May 2015

  Skin to skin right away (or as soon as possible) is good. I nursed right away too with both my kids. My hospital doesn't do a bath right away (they did with my dad)... They now wait at least 12 hours. I can't remember why (the nurse told me but I forget now).

  
  

  
  
  

   
  

  
  
  

  BFP #1: 5/24/11, DD#1 Born 1/16/12
  BFP #2: 7/24/13, MC: 8/28/13 @8weeks, 3days
  

  
  

  
  

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• justkeeptrying member

  May 2015

  The only thing that I've heard is to watch your baby while breastfeeding. I've heard of women who take this time to read or watch tv. Which is fine if you need some down time. But I've also heard of a lot of babies having a hard time latching properly and all they wanted was their mom to pay attention to them. My plan is to be totally focused on baby until I know we are strong in breastfeeding. Then maybe I'll multi-task

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• CanadaMom17 member

  May 2015

  At my prenatal class the skin to skin video they showed for right after birth, they prefer to let the baby find the breast and latch on their own.  It was pretty cool, actually, the baby will wiggle their way over to a nipple, nuzzle it a bit, then lift their heads enough to latch on like a little barracuda.  (Mom was lying on her back of course, not very propped up.)  Apparently too, if the baby has trouble latching it's a good way to feed since they're taking the initiative so to speak, and may latch better.

  
  

  I know at my hospital I'll have 2 hours in the room after she's born to do skin to skin, and feed.  Anything they have to do right away for tests they'll do with her on my chest.  The rest waits until just before we go to our room.

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• carolina9902 member

  May 2015

  In my hospital they don't do the bath until the baby has 2 good feeds because the nurse said after the bath the baby sleeps like 6 hrs and they want to make sure the baby isn't starving

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• Knottie54288128 member

  May 2015

  Don't force it. LO still has nutrition from the womb, so they aren't starving right when they come out. I tried with DS every hour or so, but he didn't latch, or act hungry for about 6 hours after he was born.

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• Sam2552 member

  May 2015

  We did skin to skin immediately. My little one came out starving though. She was making sucking faces and noises within 20 minutes (or less) of being out. They did a quick weight before they let me feed, but the nurse said to feed her right away. Only because she was already wanting to try. We waited a full 24 hours before her bath. I read it's better to wait for a multiple of reasons. I can't think of the article now. I think 6 hours or so was the earliest. The nurses said we could do it whenever we wanted. I was going to wait just until morning because we were so exhausted, but my husband needed to run errands and check on our pets. So I waited for him to get back.

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