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Dear Aunty Lactivist Can you point me in the direction of some research or guidance please about skin to skin contact straight after a c-section. I KNOW the benefits but need something more definite than my fluffy explainations. I suppose I am really thinking of early establishment of breastfeeding, rather than waiting the hour plus they say. A|
 
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Can’t offer any hard facts, but from personal experience after an emergency c-section, once initial health checks are complete, (as I understand it, if the baby hasn’t passed through the birth canal there is usually more mucus so higher likelihood of breathing difficulties) I can’t see any reason why you couldn’t establish breastfeeding straight away. I was given my daughter in the recovery room which I’m sure helped.
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Again: just personal experience. My baby was popped in an incubator in my room where she waited for me (together with Dad) to return from Recovery. The midwives left her naked so as soon as I returned they put her in bed with me for skin-to-skin and breastfeeding. No problems at all..! I was upset about losing this “magic 1st hour” but the C-section had saved her life…
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Hello! There is absolutely no reason why you cant establish skin to skin in theatre especially if you’re having an elective and there are no problems with babba (I.e. needing resuscitation) I’m a midwife at a large maternity unit and have helped loads of women to do this, its amazing for breastfeeding, regulating heart and respiratory rate and is perfect for bonding. Ask your midwife, if they suggest you can’t then go to the supervisor because you can and its so easy to achieve x x x
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UNICEF guidance for maternity services on skin to skin contact is available here http://www.babyfriendly.org.uk/page.asp?page=64. (Scroll down to Step 4 Implementation Guidance). It includes a couple of paragraphs on best practice after a caesarian.
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I’ve just come back from my pre-op appointment for my elective C-sec on Tuesday and was told that once they have done the initial checks and cut the cord even weighing etc can wait – just to say to the midwife that you want skin to skin in theatre as soon as possible and that you are happy for weighing and measuring to wait until the ward. They may offer to put a nappy on baby (I’m not sure I want meconium on my chest!) or just put an absorbent sheet thingy underneath, but as long as there are no urgent health problems then you should be fine – push for it if you need to.
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Just a personal experience but wanted to share.
I had a difficult 3day labour which resulted in my daughter being born by emergency c-section in distress, she was taken straight to neonatal after being revived and I got our first skin to skin contact 30 hours after the birth and by day 3 established breastfeeding so get it as soon as you can and don’t think you have lost the chance if you don’t get it straight away.
10 weeks on and still love breastfeeding every time I get to
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