I am planning the former, and if possible I don't want the baby moved until totally necessary. Apparently they can cut the cord, clean them up etc without moving them, and the baby is very alert in those first moments and will usually start breast feeding right away if they are given the chance! That's the experience a few of my friends had anyways. And I probably won't let the baby leave my body (unless medically required) for a long long while after birth, for the same reasons as above. If you are unmedicated, there are lots of hormones that make you feel very alert and awake, so it is a good time for bonding.
Right...I do believe I want the baby in the room with me at all times possible, especially if I''m nursing. But would it be beneficial at all to have her in the nursery (at night while sleeping) and the nurses bring her to me when she''s hungry?
I think that many of the moms here on PS have talked about liking that support, and how it helped them recover... I think I recall snlee talking about that a few pages back... for me in particular I won''t be staying in the hospital (unless there are medical problems) so it isn''t really a decision I need to make. Maybe you can just play it be ear and see how you feel? You may prefer the quiet and the help of the nurses, but you may also prefer having your baby. Who knows until the moment comes?
And it is YOUR own goop after all, it comes out of your body. That has to make a difference! If we can get used to checking our CF a million times a day, I think we can handle a little of our own blood and mucus and poop.Date: 12/18/2008 12:12:27 PM
Author: robbie3982
... I always thought I'd be grossed out by all the goop on the baby when it's first born, but now I'm thinking I might want it placed on my chest right away. After all, it won't be my clothes that get ruined and I won't have to deal with washing them....
Date: 12/18/2008 12:25:39 PM
Author: dreamer_dachsie
Date: 12/18/2008 12:12:27 PM
Author: robbie3982
... I always thought I''d be grossed out by all the goop on the baby when it''s first born, but now I''m thinking I might want it placed on my chest right away. After all, it won''t be my clothes that get ruined and I won''t have to deal with washing them....
And it is YOUR own goop after all, it comes out of your body. That has to make a difference! If you can get used to checking your CF a million times a day, I think you can handle a little of your own blood and mucus and poop.
It is a far flight, all the way to the other side of the country and I am not a good flyer... I get motion sickness. On the flight I took in November my antinausea medicine (called Gravol in Canada, which is safe for preggos though not a class A drug like Tylenol) COMPLETELY failed and I upchucked a bunch of times on the outbound flight. Anyways that is one reason DH is coming with me.
Dreamer thanks so much for your good thoughts and wishes!Date: 12/17/2008 10:01:06 PM
Author: dreamer_dachsie
Pave I definitely think you are gearing up for something good! I will be thinking of you in the days ahead, and hoping you a great L&D and also hoping that the doctors were all WRONG and your little baby is healthy and vigorous!
As for me, I just found out today that I have two more job interviews!One is driving distance, but the other requires that I fly... I scheduled it for as early as possible--the first week of January--when I will be 32 week preggo. The university pays for all my travel, but I am going to use airmiles to bring DH along, I just don''t feel comfortable going so far by myself when I am that pregnant.
Lurkers and mommas: Has anyone else flown that late in their pregnancies? How did you find it? I will get a note from my midwife stating I am safe to fly... do you think I need to do anything else?
My interview went great! I won''t hear anything for another month, but that time will fly since I have Christmas and then two interviews in the interim, so that will stop me from going mental!
Pave, I think your DH is right and all you can do is take it as it comes. In your shoes, I would do everything I could to get labour going on my own, but if it didn''t, then I would try to schedule an induction date for about a week post due date (is that possible or are they pushing for an earlier induction date for medical reasons?)... and then if I needed to be induced I would bring my doula and my DH and see how it went. I know someone who has done medication-free labour with and without being induced, and she didn''t really think they were much different! The induced labour was first, and she thought the intensity of the contax was due to induction, but then with her second labour she realized that it always feels like that
DH and I decided to have our son with us 24-7. We considered sending him to the nursery at night but DH was opposed. The nurses came in frequently to check baby and me and helped change diapers, which was very helpful. Curlygirl had Lucy stay in the nursery both nights so she could get her rest before going home and said it was the best decision ever. It really depends on what you prefer.
Obviously lots of women BF without having that first experience, but from what I have read and from a number of my friends experiences, there are hormones released in the baby during birth that really cause the baby to become alert and awake and almost primed to learn to breast feed in the 30 to 60 minutes after being born--this is apparently a little more common when the birth is natural, as some evidence suggests that the hormones released from mom to baby and in the baby are not exactly the same when an epi is used (obviously arguable, but this is one perspective). My friends said it was the strangest thing seeing their newborn wiggle towards the nipple and just start sucking away like a little piggie, eyes wide open, staring at them! Incidentally, this story is common to about 4 people I know, who all had unmedicated births, so who knows. But whether you use an epi or not, the evidence does seem to suggest that if you can establish BFing in the firs t30 - 60 minutes of life it is much much easier than trying later on.
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