The hospital I work for is going baby friendly as many other hospitals are. We have run into a few kinks with trying to change our process. We are delaying baths until the newborn is 12 hours old. Which is fine. The only issue is bathing the infant with the infant security tag that can't get wet. What are your hospitals doing about this bathing situation. We cannot remove the tag and reattach the tag because each leather band is $5 each. Any ideas? suggestions?
Nope, we used to bathe 1-2 hours also. After we went skin to skin, delaying baths came shortly after. Current research is saying that delaying the bath leads to higher breast feeding rates, increased bonding, and less hypothermia. Once we educate on why we delay the bath, parents understand.
Ditto here. Most parents think it's pretty cool. If someone requests a bath anyway, we do it under the warmer so as not to cold stress baby. There are a few exceptions on our end to the delayed bath (known HIV/HepB/HepC, chorio, for example) but by and large, our parents like it.
We also use Hugs and can get them wet so we don't have this issue. We also don't wait 12 hours though and the infants don't get the security band applied until they come up from L&D... then after the bath.
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Our babies come from L and D one to two hours after being born (after skin to skin with mom and breastfeeding). We bath them while they are on warming table soon after unless they are ill. I havent heard of waiting 12 hours for bath until now. The security bands are put on after the bath.
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Ditto here. Most parents think it's pretty cool. If someone requests a bath anyway, we do it under the warmer so as not to cold stress baby. There are a few exceptions on our end to the delayed bath (known HIV/HepB/HepC, chorio, for example) but by and large, our parents like it.