>
>Unfortunately,
>skin-to-skin-from-birth-wait-for-cues-self-attach-don't-disturb-then-if-baby's-still-awake-do-newborn-procedures
>isn't as easy or practical a message for an institutional setting.
>
>-Rosemary McNaughton, LLLL


Depends if they want to do it this way or not, though!

I am pleased to say that in  many UK hospitals this is the usual way 
for babies to be greeted...apart from the weighing, which unless the 
mother makes a bit of a fuss or there are some enlightened midwives, 
is usually done before the mother and baby leave for the postnatal 
ward.

It *is* easy to leave mother and baby to discover each other.

I wish it was done after sections, too.

Heather Welford Neil

NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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