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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not the hill to die on because you never know what will happen when the baby is here, and plus you can do plenty of skin to skin.

But to those saying it's wacky, I will counter with this - our baby failed his glucose test and doing lots of skin to skin in addition to extra BF in the first 36 hours helped him to regulate it. My DG ended up doing lots of skin to skin after each feed until the next glucose test until everything was regulated. And we continued to both do skin to skin snuggle naps a lot at home in the first few weeks. My husband enjoyed it! I don't think we ever discussed it at all pre-birth though. I knew I wanted to do it right after labor for the benefits, but hadn't thought beyond that.[/quote]
And how do you know it would not have been regulated without skin to skin?[/quote]

I absolutely don't know, could totally be correlation. But when we didn't do it, he would fail his glucose test again. Anecdotal, sure, but it wasn't until we were strictly doing skin to skin between feedings that he finally passed the necessary 4 consecutive glucose tests. So I do believe it helped him regulate.[/quote]

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