I am hearing all the talk about the csec moms and others with difficult births where the mother and baby are separated for a period of time. Of course this happens way too frequently. I am wondering if anyone has thought of dad's role during this separation? I had a scheduled repeat csec with my daughter. I knew I would be separated from her initially for at least an hour during "recovery". I had a long discussion with my nurse about this prior to the section. She understood my desire to have no interventions (no eye ointment, no weighing etc) until I was able to be reunited an have our first bf. After an initial assessment and findind baby in great shape, she returned DH and baby to my room and set them up in a rocking chair skin to skin, and left them alone for bonding. Imagine my pleasure, being wheeled in to my room and the first sight I saw was my DH naked from the waist up with my daughter also naked on his chest, wrapped in a bath blanket. As soon as I was settled, DH brought her to me for the first bf. She latched like a champ, like she had been doing it forever. Although we had other bf trials, the latch was never an issue. My question is...Could the uninterrupted bonding with dad make an impact in these situations where separation is inevitable? Has anyone heard of any studies to the fact? I would like to present this idea to my hospital, to make this the norm, instead of baby laying in a warming bed the entire time mom is in recovery. TIA..and pardon any typos...it is difficult to type with a 12 mo old nursling attached. lol Renee RN IBCLC to be LLL leader applicant (again) (http://www.tickercentral.com/) *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html