Your baby should be with YOU after birth!
Birth With Power
Dr. Nicole C. Rankins
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Your baby should be with YOU after birth! I break down the 3 pieces to that in this episode:
- skin to skin contact after birth
- delayed cord clamping
- baby being in your room at all times
Be sure to get these things by making a birth plan! I teach you the RIGHT way to do that in my FREE class: drnicolerankins.com/birthplan
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| 0:00.0 | Your baby should be with you after birth. What exactly do I mean by that? There are three parts to it. Let's talk about it. |
| 0:13.8 | Welcome to the All About Pregnancy and Birth Podcast. If you're having a baby in the hospital, you are giving birth in a system that too often |
| 0:21.9 | takes away power from women over what happens in their own bodies. I'm Dr. Nicole Calloway-Rankens, |
| 0:28.0 | a practicing board certified OBGYN, who's had the privilege of helping well over a thousand babies |
| 0:33.2 | into this world. I've been a doctor for over 20 years and I'm here to help you take back your |
| 0:38.2 | power, advocate for yourself, and have the beautiful pregnancy and birth that you deserve. |
| 0:43.7 | This podcast is for educational purposes only and it's not a substitute for medical advice. |
| 0:48.4 | Check out the full disclaimer at Dr.Nockelrenkens.com forward slash disclaimer. Now let's get to it. Hello there. Welcome to another |
| 0:57.5 | episode of the podcast, whether this is your first time listening or you have listened to before. |
| 1:02.9 | Thank you for spending some time with me today. In these short episodes that I release on Thursdays, |
| 1:09.7 | I cover topics that can be covered quickly |
| 1:12.7 | or I might share something that's on my mind or maybe I might share a fun story. |
| 1:19.0 | And today I want to chat about how your baby should be with you after birth. |
| 1:26.2 | And there are three parts to it. The first part is skin to skin contact. |
| 1:32.4 | Your baby should be on your skin right after birth. And by right after birth, I mean that your |
| 1:41.4 | baby can come straight out of your vagina and right up onto your bare chest. |
| 1:47.5 | Now that may feel like a bit much for people, baby slippery and things like that. So your baby can be |
| 1:52.1 | gently dried off first with a blanket and then placed directly on your skin. And I'm not saying |
| 1:58.9 | skin to skin contact is important just because it sounds lovely. |
| 2:03.9 | You're like, oh, that's cute. No, there are actually research proven benefits of skin to skin |
| 2:09.9 | contact, including your baby will have an easier transition to newborn life. Babies that have |
| 2:16.7 | skin to skin contact tend to have more stable |
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