Healthy Children Project Center for Breastfeeding
Not long after I spoke with Dr. Rebecca Rudesill, MD, CLC for Our Milky Way, she was on her way to perform a planned c-section. Cesarean births, especially without labor, have the potential to cause breastfeeding difficulty. Concerned that I might be disappointed with her response, I reluctantly asked if Dr. Rudesill offered her patients …
At the first birth I attended, I was responsible for two things: help my friend smile through her labor and take pictures. The latter proved to be an unexpectedly difficult task. Enveloped by the intensity and excitement of birth, I nearly found myself too engrossed to operate the camera. Ontario artist Lindsay Foster shares what …
Maternity care facilities across the United States are honoring the mother baby bond by implementing skin to skin contact immediately after birth and later. Evidence shows that skin to skin contact provides baby with a gentle transition from the inner womb to the “outer womb” (baby nestled between mother’s breasts) where mother’s body regulates baby’s …
Eight years ago, Dennis Gaynor Jr.’s son Samuel was born at 28 weeks gestation weighing 1 lb. 6 oz. Mr. Gaynor was encouraged to hold his baby skin-to-skin during their hospital stay to help improve his baby’s blood oxygen levels, sleep, temperature, breastfeeding and weight gain. Kangaroo Care was a new concept for Mr. Gaynor. …
By Healthy Children Project Healthy Children Project faculty members Kajsa Brimdyr and Karin Cadwell and colleagues from Sweden have published a new paper in Medical Hypotheses, available this month. The paper, titled “A Plausible Pathway of Imprinted Behaviors: Skin-to-skin Actions of the Newborn Immediately After Birth Follow the Order of Fetal Development and Intrauterine Training of …