Do dad’s get skin to skin after mom?

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My boyfriend wants to do it so bad, will they let him?

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There's no "let him" per hospital rules. It's your baby. They'll give the baby to you. They may need to do things like get his weight and height etc. But beyond that, it's your choice what to do with the baby. It's not like you'll hand the baby to him and they'll say "no you can't do that"....it's your baby.

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Yes! Definitely! In fact the nurses at our hospital very much encouraged it. For us, as soon as she was born they had me hold her for a few minutes for immediate skin to skin, then grabbed her quickly to take measurements while I delivered placenta and got stitches up. I continued skin to skin and let her try to breastfeed while they finished stitching (I had several 1st and 2nd degree tears). Afterwards she was done “nursing” they encouraged dad to do skin to skin too. After that they got us packed up and moved to the recovery room.

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It’s your baby, so do what you want.

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My husband did it before I did. He can do it for sure.

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They might ask to do babies weight at some point but moms dads, really anyone you give the green light to can do skin to skin

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Absolutely!!  You can tell them that’s what you’re doing anyway, it’s your baby lol.

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It's not like a standard that I know of but it's his child so he can obviously hold his child.

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Our hospital has a 2 hour waiting period before you move to postpartum room and before they do any stuff to the baby, for skin to skin. I plan on using hour 1 for me and hour 2 for him. Then we will likely have visitors when we move, and baby will probably be sleeping anyway.

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My SO actually did it before me. My sons cord was short so he stayed low til they cut the cord then handed him to dad.

Do dad’s get skin to skin after mom?

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