In addition to the error of thinking that mom and baby can be separated as
long as baby is returned for a nursing within the first hour or so, there is
also the error of rushing the first nursing in order to check off the goal
of keeping mom and baby together until the first nursing has occurred.  If
the message is that all the newborn procedures should be delayed until after
the first feeding, there is a temptation to hurry the baby to the breast,
setting mom and baby up for their very first power struggle as mom overrides
baby's instinct about when and how to seek the breast, quite possibly with
one or more other well-meaning people hovering around try to make it happen!

Unfortunately,
skin-to-skin-from-birth-wait-for-cues-self-attach-don't-disturb-then-if-baby's-still-awake-do-newborn-procedures
isn't as easy or practical a message for an institutional setting.

-Rosemary McNaughton, LLLL
Northampton, MA, USA

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