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Re: Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances

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Post by reacharavindh » Thu, May 27, 2021, 2:02 PM UTC

kazen44 wrote: post #39

reacharavindh wrote: post #33

Interesting to read this here. When my son was born (naturally, normal weight, fully healthy, and around expected due date), the midwife in Denmark had educated us about the Danish way of handling the birth - as soon as the baby comes out, they literally put the baby on mom’s chest, and leave us(parents, and baby) alone in the room for about an hour. Nothing needs to be done other than the baby being in care of it’s…

using midwives is quite common in most European countries. in some countries people usually bear there children at home instead of in the hospital as well.

Yes, this way of care was new to me as I have only lived in India and the USA prior to moving to Denmark. It simply makes sense to have midwives be the specialized practitioners for this normal natural human care.

Re: Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances

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Post by jaywalk » Thu, May 27, 2021, 2:15 PM UTC

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #38

jaywalk wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So the doctors and nurses involved should just deliver babies for free? Does the free care apply only to standard births, and then they get paid if there are complications? Or is anything involving the delivery plus anything arising from it provided for free?

The central bank prints money (partially offset by tax). Some of that money could go to basic medical care like this, as it does in most other countries.

We're currently seeing exactly what happens when the central bank money printer goes into overdrive, which is rising inflation. Maybe we shouldn't be encouraging that.

Re: Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances

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Post by snikeris » Thu, May 27, 2021, 2:18 PM UTC

kazen44 wrote: post #39

reacharavindh wrote: post #33

Interesting to read this here. When my son was born (naturally, normal weight, fully healthy, and around expected due date), the midwife in Denmark had educated us about the Danish way of handling the birth - as soon as the baby comes out, they literally put the baby on mom’s chest, and leave us(parents, and baby) alone in the room for about an hour. Nothing needs to be done other than the baby being in care of it’s…

using midwives is quite common in most European countries. in some countries people usually bear there children at home instead of in the hospital as well.

My son would probably be dead if we didn't give birth in a hospital. The cord was wrapped around his neck three times and he wasn't breathing when he came out. A small team of doctors (angels) came in and saved his life. An hour or so later, they had to do it again.

It was a short part of their work day, but made all the difference for us.

Re: Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances

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Post by tediousdemise » Thu, May 27, 2021, 2:20 PM UTC

neilpmas wrote: post #37

I'm sceptical of single study medical research and especially that which involves the crazily political world of birth. It might be better to wait until the Cochrane collaboration does a meta analysis on multiple studies before anyone changes what they are currently doing.

Crazily political indeed.

Every SUV-driving MLM Starbucks mommy with 5 homeschooled children will rally against anything science says about safe medical practices, including (but not limited) to childbirth.

Science doesn’t care about your opinions, Karen.

Re: Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances

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Post by prionassembly » Thu, May 27, 2021, 2:22 PM UTC

jonathanlydall wrote: post #15

Interesting. Our baby arrived 10 weeks premature and although it wasn't immediately after birth (as I'll explain why below), the hospital strongly encouraged the kangaroo care as mentioned in the article, which mom did daily until we could take our baby home. In a week it will be a full year since birth and the baby is in no way behind developmentally compared to other 10 month olds (when adjusting age due to prematu…

We had a 35-week baby stay a couple of weeks in the NICU too. Our maternity ward was far less paranoid over COVID, and we got to hold the baby during the C-section and for a while afterwards. Baby is just two months (unadjusted) and it's already annoying to always be explaining adjusted age and where people should be counting from for developmental placemarks.

I find as a father that sometimes the only way I can soothe the baby (mom breastfeeds and has to sleep during the daytime) is to take my shirt off and place him on my chest. I can almost code one-handed this way. I think babies somehow imprint to your smell or taste.

Re: Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances

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Post by syntaxing » Thu, May 27, 2021, 2:23 PM UTC

reacharavindh wrote: post #33

Interesting to read this here. When my son was born (naturally, normal weight, fully healthy, and around expected due date), the midwife in Denmark had educated us about the Danish way of handling the birth - as soon as the baby comes out, they literally put the baby on mom’s chest, and leave us(parents, and baby) alone in the room for about an hour. Nothing needs to be done other than the baby being in care of it’s…

I’m in the US and most hospital does the same now. They call it the golden hour where it’s just an hour of skin to skin just like you mentioned with no baby health routine until after such.

Re: Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances

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Post by jonathanlydall » Thu, May 27, 2021, 2:25 PM UTC

bredren wrote: post #29

jonathanlydall wrote: post #15

Interesting. Our baby arrived 10 weeks premature and although it wasn't immediately after birth (as I'll explain why below), the hospital strongly encouraged the kangaroo care as mentioned in the article, which mom did daily until we could take our baby home. In a week it will be a full year since birth and the baby is in no way behind developmentally compared to other 10 month olds (when adjusting age due to prematu…

I’m so glad to hear your 10 month old has been making out well. My wife and I are weeks away from our first. While very lucky—our close friends and family have not had serious encounters with covid, We’ve been most affected by regulations that have interrupted what would have been normal parts of a couple’s first pregnancy. I’m sorry to hear you were not allowed to be with the mom during delivery. And that you were d…

Congratulations and I'm glad to hear that things seem to be good as could be hoped for considering the pandemic.

With everything else that happened I kind of forgot about not being allowed to join for check ups and ultrasounds, it definitely sucked.

Fortunately they made an exception on the day of the birth (where we made an appointment only because my wife was feeling uncomfortable), otherwise I probably wouldn't have been with my wife at all before she was rushed off to theatre.

Good luck and enjoy.

Re: Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances

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Post by syntaxing » Thu, May 27, 2021, 2:27 PM UTC

prionassembly wrote: post #45

jonathanlydall wrote: post #15

Interesting. Our baby arrived 10 weeks premature and although it wasn't immediately after birth (as I'll explain why below), the hospital strongly encouraged the kangaroo care as mentioned in the article, which mom did daily until we could take our baby home. In a week it will be a full year since birth and the baby is in no way behind developmentally compared to other 10 month olds (when adjusting age due to prematu…

We had a 35-week baby stay a couple of weeks in the NICU too. Our maternity ward was far less paranoid over COVID, and we got to hold the baby during the C-section and for a while afterwards. Baby is just two months (unadjusted) and it's already annoying to always be explaining adjusted age and where people should be counting from for developmental placemarks. I find as a father that sometimes the only way I can soot…

Totally hear you but the bright side is that they catch up extremely quickly. My kid “caught up to average” within around nine months or so.

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Post by gambiting » Thu, May 27, 2021, 2:27 PM UTC

reacharavindh wrote: post #33

Interesting to read this here. When my son was born (naturally, normal weight, fully healthy, and around expected due date), the midwife in Denmark had educated us about the Danish way of handling the birth - as soon as the baby comes out, they literally put the baby on mom’s chest, and leave us(parents, and baby) alone in the room for about an hour. Nothing needs to be done other than the baby being in care of it’s…

Had a baby 3 weeks ago in the UK, it was the same. Baby was immediately on mum's chest.

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Post by gambiting » Thu, May 27, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

awestroke wrote: post #4

moonbug wrote: post #2

Based on this, expect US hospital prices for that service to go up.

Do you have to pay to hold your newborn in the US? Land of the free indeed

Wait, you have to pay to have a baby in the US?

The wealthiest country in the world cannot even pay for the birth of its own citizens?

I can understand arguments for private healthcare etc....but making people pay to give birth is insane.