The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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The AMA wants to make birth centers illegal, along with homebirths,
even though
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From the American Academy of Pediatrics [ #3 AAP Recommendations]:
Healthy infants should be placed and remain in direct skin-to-skin contact
with their mothers immediately after delivery until the first feeding is
ac=
complished.
The alert, healthy newborn infant is capable of latching on to a breast
without specific assistance within the first hour after birth. Dry the
infant,=
assign Apgar scores, and perform the initial physical assessment
while the infant is with the mother. The mother is an optimal heat source
for the in=
fant. Delay weighing, measuring, bathing, needle-sticks, and eye prophylaxis
until after the first feeding is completed. Infants affected by maternal
=
medications may require assistance for effective latch-on. Except under
unusual circumstances, the newborn infant should remain with the mother
throughout the recovery period.
Kangaroo Mother Care Promotions
aims to promote the spread and implementation of Kangaroo Mother Care as
the standard method of care for all newborn babies, both premature and
full term. This is the website of Dr.
Nils Bergman.
Birth KMC - As
originally described, and as generally practiced worldwide, skin-to-skin
contact is only “allowed” after the baby has stabilised. The assumption
therefore is that a baby requires incubator care in order to stabilise.
The reality is that incubators actually “de-stabilise” newborns.
Kangaroo
Mother Care - a practical guide (from World Health Organization - WHO)
International Network for
Kangaroo Mother Care
The
effect of skin-to-skin contact (kangaroo care) shortly after birth on the
neurobehavioral responses of the term newborn: a randomized, controlled
trial.
Ferber SG, Makhoul IR.
Pediatrics. 2004 Apr;113(4):858-65.
"KC seems to influence state organization and motor system modulation
of the newborn infant shortly after delivery. The significance of our findings
for supportive transition from the womb to the extrauterine environment
is discussed. Medical and nursing staff may be well advised to provide
this kind of care shortly after birth."
Skin-to-Skin Contact
Beneficial in Healthy Term Newborns by Laurie Barclay, MD [Medscape]
Investigators in this randomized trial suggest using this method of
"kangaroo care" shortly after birth to improve neurobehavioral responses.
The effect of skin-to-skin contact (kangaroo care) shortly after birth
on the neurobehavioral responses of the term newborn: a randomized, controlled
trial.
Ferber SG, Makhoul IR.
Pediatrics. 2004 Apr;113(4):858-65.
CONCLUSIONS: KC seems to influence state organization and motor system
modulation of the newborn infant shortly after delivery. The significance
of our findings for supportive transition from the womb to the extrauterine
environment is discussed. Medical and nursing staff may be well advised
to provide this kind of care shortly after birth.
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