Judy says:
 
 
YAY,  Laurie, GO Laurie, and everyone who does this work in a world where   
moms refuse to "submit" to having their baby on their skin for a few  
minutes  
after birth.>>

Why are we asking moms if they want their babies skin to skin?  Why  aren't 
we just putting the babies on moms abdomen/chest automatically -- as in  
"this is what we do here."  
 
I will never forget -- a wonderful lesson learned, by the way -- when I was 
 in Australia in 1992 (gosh -- last century!!) visiting Maureen Minchin in  
Melbourne after the ALCA conference which was in Canberra that year.   I 
was at the Royal Women's and Children's hospital talking to a new mom  and I 
queried, "Are you breastfeeding?"  And the midwife said, "Jan!   We don't ASK 
mothers if they are breastfeeding.  We ASSUME they are unless  they tell us 
otherwise." 
 
Lesson learned!  
 
So, we should ASSUME the mother wants the baby skin to skin with her unless 
 she tells us otherwise.  Let the baby MAKE mama fall in love with him by  
putting him on her right away....
 
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA
Lactation Education  Consultants
Wheaton IL

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