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Originally posted by dtb
DON'T READ THIS, ATTICUS
I can't remember if you've had the baby already or not, but I think you haven't. If you have had the baby (and perhaps even if you haven't), this will be irrelevant (for you), but maybe not for others:
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No baby yet. Our childbirth class is this weekend and I still have a little ways to go. Thanks so much for the advice.
As for the nurses disregarding your wishes... In theory, the hospital's practice (assuming no need for NICU or other emergency newborn care) is to let the mother have the baby for the first 45 mins to an hour for skin to skin contact and to allow for that first nursing attempt (which is recommended to occur within the first hour after birth). Then they take the kid to be weighed, measured, tested, etc. with the father watching, and then you can either have the baby in the nursery or room in. They recommended rooming in to better establish BFing, and I plan to do so. Am I overly optimistic that this will remedy some of the problems?
(BTW, the Center for Missing and Expolited Children has some tips for the hospital to keep your child from being abducted that really freaked me out. OTOH, I don't know that I'm going to be getting that much sleep anyway if the kid is going to be attached avery 2 hrs or so anyway.)
