Last night was the hospital tour. We saw a couple from our birthing class; seeing someone we knew made it a little more entertaining. Pablo won a round of solitary during the orientation speech, very exciting, I’m pretty sure the guy sitting behind us was impressed. We won a diaper bag with free samples, including a nice sized can of formula. Anyone want a can of baby formula?
For the most part it looked and smelled like a typical hospital. Most of the time they only have one person per room, and they have a cot for your significant other to sleep on which is nice. The rooms have a set up for taking the babies vitals and doing most of the routine stuff, but they do take the baby at night to bath and weigh and give the state tests and shots. They said most of the nurses will let the father come along for the bath and nightly “chores”. If we happen to get a nurse that is not ok with the father going along she is going to be one unhappy lady.
They explained to us that after the birth they place the baby on the mother’s abdomen for a moment then take them over to the warmer and check their vitals, give them the vitamin K shot, and put the just in cause your dirty and have an STD ointment in their eyes. Once they are warm they take them to be bathed and weighed, after they are bathed they bring them back in and put them in the warmer and once they are warm again they move them to the crib that is in the room and you can then “breastfeed them or whatever”. That all sounds great except for the part where they take the child I just gave birth to and put her in a warmer like a big mac and start poking her and putting crap in her eyes and then take her and bath her and poke her more and then bring her back and put her back into the warmer like a sausage mc muffin and then after however long that takes they give her to me to “breastfeed or whatever”. I think we’ll stick with our plan of after she is born and obviously breathing wipe her down real good and give us some blanks and we’ll keep her warm, breastfeed, hang out for an hour or so and then when we're ready you can take her and bath her and poke her and bring her back. I understand that new babies cannot regulate their body temperature but last time I checked I was warm blooded and no babies froze to death before fast food heating lamps were installed in hospitals.
3 comments:
I totally agree. The vast majority of full-term babies CAN regulate their own body temperature just fine. Some pre-term babies can't, so if your bean is born early then they do have to put her in the warmer quickly. But if she's born full-term, then snuggling next to your boob is totally the best place for her during that 1st hour of life. :-)
I love it Lisa you are my kind of Mom you go girl. And I know Pablo will be one hard dude to make sure you guys do it your way. The best thing that happened after you were born was for me to blead from who knows where. I was able to keep you and nurse you for hours and look how great you turned out. Very healthy and very happy. And it did not hurt you a bit to not be bathe for hours after you were born. I wish you guys the best and I hope it is nothing but a wonderful experience for all three of you.
Hey I thought I made a comment on this one but it must not have posted. Any way you are a mom and dad after my own heart. I was really happy I got to keep you for so long after you were born and look at how good you turned out. We took you home the very next day and things went really well. Keep to your plan it is a good one. I love it that you know what is best for Keelin. Being with her mom and dad will be the best begining she could have. I love how you put it she is a living breathing person and being with her mom and dad will be much better then a warm bed. I love your humor of it all hopefully the hospital will co-operate but with a good daddy like Pablo I am sure they will.
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