After sending my message commenting on Julie and Denise's posts, I then read Rachel's post (below). 
Rachel, has your hospital considered doing a study on fathers and skin-to-skin contact?

Virginia
in Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Rachel Myr wrote:

The focus here now is on keeping mothers and babies in physical contact
after CS. Sometimes it's not possible, so we go back to previous procedure,
which was to keep father (or whoever mother's significan other is) and baby
in physical contact until mother was ready to have baby on her chest. The
labor ward midwives, who were not so cognizant of the effect of
skin-to-skin even after uncomplicated vaginal births, noticed quickly that
a baby who had just spent the first hour or so on father's chest was primed
to root and seek mother's breast when moved from father to mother. 
.... Men's chests don't regulate temperature the same way ours do, 
.... Fathers just keep the heat on, so they
need to keep track of the baby's temperature....
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway


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