And you quickly forget about weakness when you start taking care of a crumb. Some, on the contrary, are against being at once with the child, since childbirth is a great stress for the mother and you need to try to recover as best as possible - to sleep more, for example. What are the conditions for women, necessary for delivery in any maternity hospital?
Currently, one of the following modes can be adopted in maternity homes:
♦ joint stay (JV) of the mother and newborn;
♦ Separate stay of mother and baby, when the child is brought to the mother for feeding by the clock. The rest of the time, all children are in the children's ward, and women of 2-10 people in the general postpartum.
♦ In addition, in some maternity hospitals, you can agree that the child is taken away when the mother wants to relax, and the rest of the time he was with her. As a rule, this is possible if you stay in a paid room.
It will not be boring
It is believed that when you are together, your mother is much less prone to postpartum depression, because caring for a newborn is natural for a woman who has just given birth. When you are less worried about how your baby is there without you, when you see it, you hear and smell it, milk comes faster, the uterus contracts better, the seams are healed faster. If the mother is all right, the newborn will be given it within three hours after delivery, making sure that his condition is stable. Otherwise, neonatologists may insist that the child needs constant supervision of medical personnel: if there are suspected congenital malformations, intrauterine infections or birth trauma, with prematurity, severe hypotrophy, in case of conflict in the blood group or Rh factor, and so on.
Elena tells: "Immediately after the birth I started a speech that I want to be with the child together, let it be paid. I was dissuaded by a midwife who evaluated the condition of the baby. And in fact, his son quickly developed the so-called jaundice of newborns, and he was transferred to the intensive care unit. Almost 24 hours a day, he spent under a dropper and under a special lamp, and to breast-feed at first it was banned. Only in vain would I throw money for a paid house, and I would also have to watch how my neighbors spend the whole day and night cuddling with their children. But with the second, if everything is in order, I'm only aiming for a joint stay! "However, in some cases, the joint venture is exactly what we need for weakened babies." Closeness to my mother calms down, mother's milk at first demand helps to gain weight.
Mom's doubts
When the baby is in the same room with you, breastfeeding on demand will be adjusted more quickly. In the case of separate stay, babies are brought for feeding by the hour. In some maternity homes, children lying in children's wards are fed with a mixture or dopaivayut water with glucose and bring the mothers are already full and sleeping. As a result, the mother may develop breast problems, develop mastitis or lactostasis, or expect difficulties with breastfeeding (there will not be enough milk). The child may be allergic to the mixture or glucose, upset the intestines, begin dysbiosis. The risk of these complications, as well as infecting the baby with hospital opportunistic strains in the joint venture is much less. The main reason for the joint stay of the mother and the baby in the maternity hospital is the establishment of feeding on demand. Momochke is troubled by the alarm: how to cope with the child, if before they did not see him in the eye? The newborn appears to be a very fragile creature, which is easy to harm if it is somehow wrong to take him in his arms. Maternal instinct tells you what to do, and experienced medical staff will only be happy to give advice on how best to take care of a baby. Nurses of the children's department first can show you how to wash a baby, rub his eyes and nose, process the umbilical wound, and then - see if you are doing everything right. Arriving home, you will feel much more confident than after a separate stay. However, all people are different, it may be that the nurses will not be up to you, because they have to take care of those crumbs that lie separately from the mother. When preparing for a joint venture, pre-read books on the care of a newborn. be like courses for parents.
♦ If there are other children in the ward, do the children prevent each other from sleeping with their weeping? No! First, the baby who is with his mother has fewer reasons for crying. At the slightest signal, he can immediately get his mother's breast, and at other times the newborn sleep. Secondly, in the children's ward of babies is much more and before the hours of feeding (if they are not supplemented with a mixture) is a real hubbub! Thirdly, there is a theory that newborns do not hear the noise around themselves and it does not prevent them from sleeping.
♦ In the children's ward, children are fed a mixture, and with a joint venture? What if the milk comes only on the fourth day? Will the kid be hungry? The mother's body after giving birth begins to produce a very valuable food - colostrum. When applying the child on demand, it is usually enough of these drops. If the child is weakened and can not dissolve the breast, the mother may need help in decanting. And she will come! You will be discharged on the third or fourth day, and at home, as you know, the walls help. Everything is ahead of you and everything will be fine. The main thing is that you are together!
Who should not?
Contraindications to joint residence can be two: the state of the mother or the condition of the child. In addition, other factors can play a role: for example, a joint venture in this maternity hospital is practiced only in a limited number of chambers and there simply will not be any vacant places, or the joint venture is only possible in the paid room, and you do not have the material capabilities. If the cesarean section or delivery has been complicated, the woman really needs time to recover, otherwise anemia, low blood pressure, migraine or weakness can lead to even tragic consequences (mothers are afraid to drop the baby). Do not hesitate to tell the doctor that you are not ready for a joint venture. In such cases, the doctor decides to place the baby in the children's ward for the required period.