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Breast crawl? Pulsating cord?
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Anonymous
I wish I'd thought of that. Would definitely have passed the time in a relatively amusing way 
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Anonymous
| Never heard of the breast crawl. Thank you for the link to the breathtakingly beautiful video. I wouldn't deliver anywhere but in a hospital; still, mothers, babies, and families have lost so much with the medicalization of childbirth. |
Anonymous
Welcome to DCUM - kinda disappointing, huh? |
Anonymous
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FYI
Interestingly we just took the hospital tour at VHC and the RN in charge of the tour told the large group of maybe 20 couples that she preferred/recommended the breast crawl. I thought this was really interesting because I figured the hospital tour would be pretty unbiased in terms of doling out birthing opinions but as this is also my opinion I was pretty excited to hear a nurse where I'll be delivering feels the same way. My only concern is that the Breast crawl research says that this only really works if the process is uninterrupted for the first hour which means postponing weighing, vit K, and all that stuff which I highly doubt all nurses will agree with. |
Anonymous
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Re the "breast crawl" -- I didn't know it was a "thing," but my baby did that! It was so surprising -- I was holding him and just sort of blissed out after a hard labor, and he was wiggling, and suddenly I was like, whoa, hey, he's latched on!
I'll have to ask my midwife next time I see her if they facilitate that on purpose or if it just happened. This was at BirthCare. Thanks for the links, PP, very interesting. |
Anonymous
these are not priority procedures. for example the vit K some babies get only after the first bath, hours after birth. what worries me is the apgar scores... how do they do that without interfering with the baby? |
Anonymous
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14:13 here. I think the Apgar scores can be done visually for the most part. They check:
Activity and muscle tone (whether the baby is moving around alot or more limp) Pulse (which they can probably get from somewhere else on the body than the chest if it's on the mother) Grimace or reflex ability (if baby sneezes, pulls away or coughs with stimulation) Appearance (skin coloration) Respiration (breathing rate and effort) So I think all can be done while the baby is on mother and very quickly. |
Anonymous
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pulse in NB is taken only apical so you need to put the stethoscope on the baby's chest.
they have to check for other reflexes (moro/startle ie) also in the very first minutes I wonder how they'll do it after 1 hour.... |
Anonymous
Where did you get this information? It's incorrect. OBs or nurses will do the apgar test on the mother's chest in hospital settings. The only "reflex" test that was done on my baby was a stroke of baby's foot, to which he grimaced. They did not do moro or startle or any other reflexes at all. The pulse was taken via the umbillical cord, if I remember correctly; but when my son's pediatrician listened to his heartbeat and pulse, she put a stethoscope on his back. |
Anonymous
DID they do it all while baby was trying to crawl your breast? |
Anonymous
Uh, no, LOL. I didn't do the "breast crawl." We were more of a freestyle type family...or maybe the back stroke. Just kidding. I brought baby up to my chest and stroked his head 800 times and then put him to my breast and he latched on. I had a natural birth, but I didn't do the breast crawl. We did ask (and our OB actually agreed readily and says he does it anyway) for the umbillical cord to stop pulsing before he cut it. He actually asked DH if he wanted to cut it, which was cool, I think (I was looking at the baby, not the cord). The cord was very cool looking, though. |