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Doula

Category - Postpartum

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A doula can facilitate a successful skin-to-skin experience in the first hour after birth by:
  1. Counseling parents before labor begins on the importance of uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact.
  2. Encouraging delivery clothing that allows baby easy access to the mother's skin.
  3. Helping to position the baby over the mother's belly with relaxed arms and legs extended.
  4. All of the above
Explanation
Answer: D - A doula can make all of these suggestions to get parents ready to practice skin-to-skin contact in the first minutes of baby's life. Just knowing the pros and cons of uninterrupted skin-to-skin time is enough to encourage most parents to advocate for this practice for their own baby. Many hospitals allow mothers to choose what they wear during delivery - and some women end up with nothing on anyway! - but choosing clothing that is easily removed from the front of mom's body will ease the work it takes to get baby skin-to-skin as soon as possible after birth. A doula can easily step in to help get baby into a position that will engage baby's reflexes and improve extra uterine adaptation and breast-seeking behavior.
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