Hi, my name is Tamara and I hope you don't mind a lurker chiming into the
c-sec discussion. My daughter was born 4 years ago after an emergency c-sec
with general anesthesia. I was extremely "out of it" and shaking violently
after the general and was given morphine for my extreme pain. I have no
memory of the recovery room, but my husband tells me that I nursed the baby
there with the nurses holding her over my breast. Apparently she was face
down to the breast with her body facing in the opposite direction of mine,
her butt next to my head.

Once stable, baby and I were taken to our room where I nursed her a second
time.
I have very vague memories of this, but we do have a lovely photo of me flat
on my back with the baby being held across my chest face down to the breast.
One of the nurses is supporting her head a bit so she can still breath and I
have a deliriously happy grin on my face. Baby roomed in and this style of
nursing continued through the night with the help of dad and nurses while I
slept.

This all happened at a 12 bed rural Idaho hospital, 200 miles from the
nearest IBCLC. The c-sec was a very traumatic experience for me, but I am
extremely grateful to those enlightened nurses who tried to make it as
normal of an experience as possible for my daughter and me.

Tamara

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