Csection birth plan?

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What are my options here? 
Is delayed cord cutting an option?
Skin to skin immediately?
Delayed bath?
Hallllp!!
I want to do things as calm and natural as possible but what are my options really?

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My husband got to do skin to skin sitting next to me while they stitched me up.  I thought that was pretty special 😍

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Had C-section in Houston,TX just week ago. They did delayed cord blood, cleaned off baby some at warmer, and then let me have skin to skin. They did not wash the baby off real well until I was wheeled to recovery room.

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Where I work (L&D or) as long as there’s not a reason to prevent it we do delayed clamping for one minute. As far as skin to skin after the nurses clean baby and do checks they try to have baby over with parents asap. As far a delayed bath not sure how my hospital does it and can’t remember when I had my son how they did it.

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I don’t know about the cord clamping because that means they would have to leave you opened up for a minute and that risks infection (I honestly don’t know how it works I could be wrong). 
Skin to skin you can do
You can delay the bath if you’d like
At my hospital they did skin to skin right away, kept the baby with me the whole time, did all the baby tests in my room so they didn’t take him from me, I breastfed right away when I got to the room. 
My CS was great.

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I had an elective c-section, 
I doubt they'll do delayed cord cutting, as they need you in and out for the next patient. You would need to ask your OB about this directly.
Skin to skin, you won't be able to do immediately as its cold for the baby, you have 2 options, they'll dress the baby and give them to you, or they will wrap them up and plop them in your arms. My baby was with me straight away, and stayed whilst I was stitched up etc. About 20 minutes later she was snuggled in on my chest breast feeding. 
My experience was supeeeeer chill, had Christmas songs on, we were chatting about Christmas food and presents, what her name would be, when they were going to lunch and what they were going to eat. The nurse took 115 pictures of her delivery lol, I have soooo many pictures, even ones with my guts in! I loved it, I'm having a csection for number 2, if they'll let me :)

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Following n I m not an expert or a previous c section mama but birthed 3 babies n w # 4 due March so reading for a ling time.  I d say a delayed bath is always your choice..or no bath at all...skin to skin on your face..n u can get a clear curtain so u can see the baby be lifted out of u at most hospitals.

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With my emergency c the did 1-2min delayed clamping. While I was getting closed up they did all the measurements, so by the time I was closed she was in my arms doing skin to skin! We were at the hospital for 5 days and didn’t bathe her at all while there other than a warm washcloth over her head.

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I have always had skin to skin pretty quickly, they just check baby real quick to make sure there aren't any problems.  They can do delayed bath.  Cord clamping, I'm guessing not bc they need to close you up, but I've never asked so I can't say for sure.  This will be my third and I plan to have them lower the drape(will still have clear drape up) just so I can see baby come out since I couldn't with my first two.

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I had an emergency c section. My doctor did delayed cord clamping for as long as she could (it wasn't any longer than a minute though). Once they got done cleaning up my daughter, doing the apgar, etc I was able to do skin to skin for as long as I could while they stitched me up. If I had requested a delayed bath they would have done it. Some hospitals might do it differently but you can always ask your doctor what the hospital policies are.

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