Attended a couple of caerarean sections at my training hospital. After discussing these with my sister who is a midwife in England realised a couple of things. First of all when the baby is birthed the woman has a hard time seeing it. The midwife receiveing the babe takes it to show her, but in my sisters hospital the infant resus cot is next to the womans head and she can see everything going on for herself. Secondly the baby came with us back to the ward and she had her wakeful time with her grandma. When the mother came back we put the babe with her and skin to skin, but the babe was too sleepy to feed. My question is does anyone have any studies or literature that I can use to talk to our unit manager. Don't expect to move mountains as I am only a student but would like to make my feelings known and maybe we can work towards some change.
 
Thanks Sheena

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