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Hi all, my consultant is recommending a planned c section. I was wondering for those of you who have had one, how long was it after the baby was born for you have to skin to skin with your baby? Thanks in advance
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I had a planned c section with my first due to placenta praevia. It was probably 5 mins as he was checked before skin to skin with him, not long at all. With my second, we were both had complications with the delivery, so I think that was about 20-30 mins before skin to skin x
It’s 10-20 minutes, as the initial checks of your baby takes up to 10 minutes. APGAR scores are taken at 1, 5 and 10 minutes then after that skin to skin.
I had a planned c section, after all of baby's checks we had skin to skin for about 8 hours!!
I had an emergency c section and wasn’t till we were back upstairs on the ward and all checks been done that we got proper skin to skin contact
I had an elective C Section, Baby came out :08 and was placed on my chest :15…… that was roughly 7mins after she came out for us to have skin to skin
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Hi all, my consultant is recommending a planned c section. I was wondering for those of you who have had one, how long was it after the baby was born for you have to skin to skin with your baby? Thanks in advance
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