Keep Mother and Baby Together ? It?s Best for Mother, Baby, and Breastfeeding

You’ve waited nine very long months to greet your baby.? Now the big day is here!? Do you really want to work through labor only to hand your baby off to someone else at the very last minute?? Babies who stay with moms, particularly skin to skin, tend to stay warmer and breastfeed better and longer.? Mom also benefits from the close contact and nursing, including have her uterus contract and minimizing her bleeding.

So unless there is a good medical reason to remove your baby – don’t do it.? Keep your baby rather than hand her over for weight checks, and other routine shots and procedures.

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