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I even kissed DD1 before she was cleaned off....
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He came out blue! I was glad they wiped him down a bit and got him oxygen before they put him on me. I don't need a swaddled, diapered baby, I just don't really want more blood and guts on me.
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I didn't really have a preference. I tend to not like the goop though. I didn't get skin to skin with either, the first because I guess that's just what the hospital did, and the second because of meconium.
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Yes! Give me that baby!!! There was nothing more beautiful than my brand new baby!!!
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Nope. Both kids had their cords wrapped around their necks multiple times so I couldn't.
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Of course. I had a waterbirth, so I was already messy. I was so shellshocked from the pain and the hunger and the long night that I was just sort of like 'ok, baby, yeah'. But yeah, I wanted her immediately.
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I would have but the cord was around her neck and they cleaned her up a little, wrapped her, and gave to me.
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@jedeve: I wanted to but it wasn't an option. I hope it is possible with this baby.
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I'd likely want the baby cleaned first.
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I had them all in my arms asap. No baths for the first day at our hospital anyway.
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Didn't really have have a choice. The first twin was placed on my chest for a couple seconds before she was taken away by the NICU staff and I needed to start pushing for the second. The second was barely breathing and was taken away immediately. Otherwise, I would have happily cuddled goopy babies.
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Give me that goopy baby!
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With LO1, I was so exhausted (after 3 hours of pushing) that I didn't really care about holding him and he seemed a little alien to me! But I thought immediate skin-to-skin was the thing to do, so I just held him and let him try to nurse right awat. In retrospect, I wish someone had suggested I not hold him, since he stopped breathing at one point likely because I was holding him in a bad position and I was too out of it to notice. (We had a "code blue" response, with every nurse in the birth center coming to our room to help get him breathing again. Very terrifying.)
With LO2, I was happy to hold her right away: 5 minutes of pushing left me much more capable, and--even though she still felt like a bit like a stranger to me--I could anticipate my love for her much better.
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Yes, which I am extremely grateful for. I haemhorraged soon after and wasn't physically able to hold her for the rest of the night, so DH did. It is one of the best and hardest memories for me. Hardest because I wanted her close, but best because I really got to witness DH become a father.
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No one announced when I was crowning or when the shoulders / legs were out, so when they lifted him up, I was stunned he was born. I thought I still needed to push. I was way too emotionally and physically overwhelmed, and I think the nurses knew that. They wrapped up him in a towel (without cleaning him), put him on my chest for about 5-10 minutes as I sobbed and DH & my mom teared up & fawned over him. Then the nurses cleaned him off for about 5-10 minutes and gave him back for skin-to-skin, at that point I had calmed down but there were still a ton of happy tears.
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I really wanted it. With the first they put him on my chest for a few seconds but I started hemorrhaging right away so they took him to get weighed and such while they focused on me. I had him back within 5 minutes.
I had a csection with my second. She was shown to me, then they did the apgar and she was rubbed down a bit. They gave her to DH, who brought her to me for a minute before we were all taken to recovery. I had to stay in recovery for a while because my BP was very very low, but skin to skin was very encouraged even there.
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I held both of mine immediately. DS wasn't very goopy, DD was covered in vernix (3 weeks early) but I thought it was really neat!
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Yes, but in my line of work, goop doesn't bother me anyway. Mostly I just remember feeling instantly so much better that they were out and more relief than paying much attention to the baby.
They let me take a shower within an hour after the birth, so even though my hands and arms were all gross, I got to clean up right away.
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In theory, I want my baby straight away. But, in practice, with E, I was so traumatised by labour I couldn't wait to get her off me. I'm hoping to feel that elation and love this time around.
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Um, sort of? I had an emergency C-section after a failed induction and I was pumped full of so many drugs at that point that I struggled to stay awake during the procedure. I BARELY stayed awake long enough to hear my son being born and then had to wait while they cleaned him off and hand him to DH. It was the longest 2 minutes of my life because I was SO STINKING SLEEPY. I finally got to "hold" him with one arm and DH's help and said hello, but wanted him off me after a minute because I was sure I was going to fall asleep and thought that would be rude. Then DH took the baby to recovery while I passed out during the sewing up and clean-up. By the time I was wheeled into recovery, I was much more awake and able to hold him and get him to latch on to my breast.
We're planning an RCS with #2 for many reasons, but part of the decision did have something to do with me being so groggy the last time around with all the drugs. I'd much rather have a straightforward C-section and be awake and aware this time around.
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Due to birthing position it always took a minute or two until I could hold them. It was fine though, I got to stroke the cheek of my second while we prepared for me to turn etc. The cord was cut with both of them before they were on me.
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I wanted to hold her right away, but I didn't anticipate getting the shakes SO bad so we decided it was better that she got cleaned up and checked out first.
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