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It's one of those things that still makes me cringe and get that "pit in my stomach"
feeling when I think about it ...and I want to tell you my story so it doesn't happen
to you.
But before I go there...Let's go back to pre-birth. I had doubts and fears. Things like:
...am I going to be able to do this?
...I'm scared of the pain
...am I tough enough to handle this?
...will my baby be healthy?
...I really just want a healthy baby.
These were a few of mine, but I had more...
So I planned. I researched. I read the books. I took the birth class. I thought I was ready
for baby to come. I pretty much did everything.
Much, much, later, I found out that I hadn't done everything. I completely overlooked the
most important part of my baby's birth. The golden hour after he was born.
Remember this picture from our first video? If you didn't watch it, click up there and
check out video one now.
That mama sweaty and smiling? In case that sweaty, curly hair fooled you , that was me.
4.5 years ago. Right after our first baby was born. Jackson William.
I had no idea, at that moment, what the most dangerous part of childbirth was...but I was
getting ready to experience it.
I had no idea that I could boost my sweet baby boy's health immediately before and right
after that picture was taken.
And man, I wish I would have.
It's one of those things that still makes me cringe and gives me that "pit in my stomach"
feeling when I think about it. Honestly, it tears me up into bits...because, looking back,
I could have impacted Jackson's health (and my own wellbeing) in a lot of really important
ways ... if knew then, what I'm about to share with you now.
Jackson was sent off to the nursery very shortly after he was born "to be watched" because
he was having breathing issues- he was breathing rapidly. He stayed there
for over 4 hours and this whole scenario I'm sharing was avoidable.
After he was whisked away, I said to myself ... "I'll do ANYTHING to help my son get better.
I need to do SOMETHING to help my baby! I need my baby back. What can I do?"
I asked the nurse "where's my baby now? What can I do to help my baby?"
The nurse said "The nursery needs to watch him for a while. You just need to get some
rest. There's nothing you can do mama."
So I did nothing. I hoped for the best. But it didn't feel right. I was trying to keep
it together. I was a wreck.
An hour went by ... then two ... then three... I waited for my baby.
I felt panicky and my arms really longed to hold him. What I didn't understand at the
time was that my brain was releasing all these hormones that were literally turning
on my mothering. My body was doing its job of caring for and protecting my baby.
How is it that arms which have never, ever, longed to hold a baby before, were now bereft
by not having Jackson in them?
The reason why I felt panicky is the exact reason why studies prove that babies do best
on their mom's chest. Their brains, their bodies and their physiology are
wired to transition to life outside the womb on their moms chest (barring an extreme emergency).
Studies show babies respond and normalize best, even with health challenges, when they're
skin to skin on their mom's chest.
Studies show that had Jackson been skin to skin on my chest, his brain would have also
released chemicals (aka hormones) helping his little body to do everything it
needed to do easier, faster & safer. The same things he was having problem with, things
like regulating his own breathing, regulating his own body temperature, because he would
have been on my chest when I'm breathing that actually helps my baby regulate his breathing.
There's a whole slew of other ways that skin to skin can help your baby after birth.
Jackson needed my body, my warmth, my touch, my voice, my smell, he needed my breath my
breathing he needed my touch way more than he needed to be sitting in an incubator full
of strangers in the nursery.
I believed there was nothing I could do to impact Jackson's health after birth because
I just didn't know. But the hospital didn't knew either. They didn't know what their own
medical studies have proven.
Jackson did need to be watched. But he should have been watched on my chest.
Let's flash forward several years- I have now talked with many of the top doctors, hospitals
& maternity care providers in the country who routinely put babies on
their mom's chests & I've read the studies with my own eyes... it's crystal clear. There
is no doubt that the best place for a baby to be after birth is on its mother's chest
and It makes perfect sense.
But I literally didn't learn any of this until 3 years after Jackson's birth! I knew that
I never felt right about what had happened but ...but I had no idea that science backed
me up.
It doesn't have to be like it was for me, for you. You won't look back with regret you
won't look back with those tears in your eyes feeling like "I wish I would have known"
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THank you!