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Re: Birth PlansFrom: Cheri Van Hoover (cherivh@waonline.com)Sat Jun 21 18:57:01 1997
Robert J. Woolley wrote: > Do you encourage your new mothers to eat the placenta? Don't encourage it, and have never had any of my new mothers request it. Some midwives (especially those doing home births) do report these sorts of experiences. There was a long and spirted thread on placentophagia on the midwife list a while back. Not my cup of tea, but to each her own. There's never been a controlled study, so who can say whether it would be advantageous or not. Practitioners of Chinese medicine make a remedy to enhance PP recovery from the woman's own placenta. I've never used it, so have no idea if it might be helpful in any way.
>Lick the baby Not a very efficient way for a human being to do it, given the nature of the human tongue. I generally encourage the new mother to help dry the baby (which is on her abdomen) with warm blankets.
> Push the new baby to walk within minutes or hours? Neither possible nor desirable, given the immature status of the human newborn as compared to other primates. I do encourage the new baby to perform up to its biological capabilities, however, by trying to get it to the breast to suck as soon as it indicates its readiness by rooting. I also encourage en face alert interaction with the parents. I keep the naked, dry baby on the mother's bare skin, with both of them covered with warm blankets. I believe this encourages rooting and quiet alert responses in the baby, helps maintain the appropriate body temperature in the vulnerable newborn, and assists in the regulation of respiration and other transitional processes.
-- Cheri Van Hoover, CNM Midwifery Service at Stanford Palo Alto, CA
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