Short answer: no
Rachel

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:33 PM, vgthorley <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> **
> 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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