piles of papers from Chris Mulford and myself. This one that amused me was a Lactnet post by Karen Gromada in 2008 were she said she proposed STS to the drs and she wasn't making much progress for STS vs routine separation of mother & baby. "Our OB docs were not very taken with the idea. They felt the mothers would not enjoy the experience of holding 'a wet slimy baby', and that waiting up to 90 minutes to record a weight was unacceptable to them and family members "
so now it is 12 years later....do you have STS at your hospital Karen..? Did other people have a long wait to institute STS for healthy full term babies? Gene Cranston Anderson observed it first and wrote about it in 1986! and it was OK for preemies a long while before someone said "oh what about full term babies?' Maybe they'd like mommy to hold them." (after all she just did for 9 mo.) Why does it take so long for sensible, logical changes to happen? Pat in SNJ
PS: article mentioned was Kangaroo Care at Birth for Full Term Infants: A Pilot Study (!) from MCN in 2007.
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