Please respond to me privately. I work in a hospital. I have brought up two ideas here to the management group, that I need some references for. 1) how can we get babies to breastfeed in the first 2 hrs. of life with a C/S mother? Who keeps babies in this situation in the DelRm(OR)with the mother? and if so or not, how does the baby bypass, or not, the nursery and all that routine?, when there is so much to recovering a mother these days? 16 yrs ago when I had my C/S, they stayed in the room with me and the monitoring of me (the mother) was not near as complicated. Both nursed as soon as it was feasible in the recovery room. Not so here. 2) Does anyone tub bath their newborns for their first bath? We did this my only year working at Evergreen in Kirkland, WA. I loved it, much less stress on babies, they loved the immersion. Now it seems the 'right' thing to do here, less stress, better breastfeeding because there is less energy drain, better blood sugars, less crying, etc, etc. Sorry for the off topic, but I don't know of a better group I could ask. I look forward to the responses. Thanks ahead of time! Betsy Wells-Gephart RN, IBCLC Lactation Specialist Chandler Regional Hospital *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html