Originally Posted by Tersh

My hospital stay didn't seem to endorse the 'give mom a break' rule. Your baby, you take care of him. Even my aunt, who had twins at the same hospital 23 years ago, was told "no, we do not take the babies to allow mom to have a break. They are, after all, your babies."

lol, then what's the point of the nursery? Under normal circumstances I'm not inclined to give my child into someone else's care in order to nap. But the first couple days after child birth or a C-section.. sorry, mom needs to recover.

My hospital would take formula fed babies for an entire night and bring them back in the morning. Obviously they couldn't do this with breast fed babies. And if the rolling bed thing didn't have a "no bottles" sign, then the nurses were instructed to feed the baby while in the nursery and let it go back to sleep.

Though I think they wanted them there mostly for observational purposes, and to have "everything in a neat little line" as someone else said. Because sometimes they'd come and get the babies for some other reason, and bring them back when they were hungry.

[kittycat]

My DH did Kcare with Kyle in the NICU, so it wasn't a big deal for him to do it with Ian. But because of how things worked out after my c-section with Ian, the only time we were separated was while I was being sewn up and he was being cleaned off and printed. Once we were in recovery together (didn't take long), he was right on my chest and feeding. Karl did K-care at home with Ian, once we got out. It's good for bonding, but also for calming a baby. Kyle, for example, always breathed better during k-care - and would regulate his heart rate and breathing patterns more in line with our own, during it.