Hi!
We are finally implementing our breastfeeding guidelines which state that babies are not to be separated from their moms for the first hour of life...and remain skin to skin. Although this is going to happen, the nurses want to know how people with comparable delivery rates do this. 
Here is their dilemma. We have no transitional nursery..so they do all the baby "stuff" as well as mother....weights, measurements, eye prophylaxis, VitK injection, Ballard etc. We have 5-6,000 deliveries per year. Since it is required to have two nurses at a delivery, the "baby" 
nurse has been doing all the above stuff before she leaves the nursery. If we keep mom and baby together, how and when to do these procedures? It seems like most of this can be done while mom and baby are together???
Thanks!
Carol L'Esperance, Albuquerque, NM



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