Watching baby after hospital birth

[Guest guest]

I just had to share this as well since there has been talk about

watching your baby like a hawk after a hospital birth. I was

suprised to go to the hospital in labor and find that my baby was

breach and they would try to turn him since and ultrasound revealed

that the cord was wrapped around his neck. After dealing with that

the best I could we went ahead with the c-section. When I was able

to hold my baby in the recovery room I kept telling the nurse that I

needed to breastfeed him, as I know how important it is to do asap

and he was rooting around looking for it. I was still hooked up to

the monitors and a lot of the cords were in my way. The nurse kept

telling me she needed just a minute and then she would help me, after

5 minutes of being brushed off I moved things myself and got my baby

boy what he wanted. When she came back to finally help me and her

suprised response was your were serious you realy did want to nurse

him! Duh, why do you think I kept asking? After refusing the hep-b

and the eye goop (went with the vit k shot since he was c-section)

they left us alone and when he went to the nursery he wasn't there

long enough for me to feel nervous at all. The last day that I was

there they came and got the baby for the ped to look at him and

discharge him (I love my ped he is very respectfull of our decision)

the ped came in and said everything looked good, my baby looked a

little jaundiced but nothing to worry about unless it got worse over

the weekend. After he left the room I told my husband he needed to

go and get the baby because he had been gone to long and I was

getting nervous what was going on. He left the room and the nurse

came in and said your baby looks jaundice we held some monitor thing

to his head (can't remember name) and he had a level of 14 and so we

are drawing his blood. I was so shocked and she turned around and

left that I couldn't even say to her the ped was just here not

worried and neither am I! My husband walked in seconds later and I

was in tears I told him what happened and he was off to rescue our

baby. When he got to the nursery he saw someone getting a baby ready

for a heal prick he said there was so many babies and it was hard to

tell who was who but he wasn't taking any chances. He pounded on the

glass and the nurse getting ready to do the prick came to him he said

is that baby Hansen she said yes, he said have you done anything yet

she said no, he said good we don't want anything done. The nurse

asked if the babies nurse knew about this and he said it doesn't

matter, he is coming with me. I have been wanting to share this

since I had just over six weeks ago but haven't had the time until

now. I am happy to report that he is jaundice free and hasn't had

anything but natures best, breastmilk, since he was born!

Marci