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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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