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Originally posted by SEC_Chick
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?
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Make sure policy and practice are the same. I had an emergency c-section but not a complicated one, and they did not bring me the baby for about 3 hours until I got out of recovery and into my room. They kept saying they were bringing the baby but just never got around to it. They wanted to wait until I could move my legs, or my chills subsided, or my pain meds kicked in, or until they gave the baby a bath (???!!!) but since I was feeling rather crappy it was hard to put up an effective fuss or to keep track of time.
And this is a hospital with a mom holds the baby within an hour policy.
I'm really not bitter! Just frustrated by all of it -- not the way I expected things to go. Next time I'll take more charge of things - or have hubby prepared to do it.
