If you are preparing for birth and thinking about a cesarean, there’s likely to be a good deal of emotional tacking, from excitement at meeting your baby to varying degrees of concern, fear, even grief.
After three years of infertility, in 15 minutes I will meet my son.
Years ago in Zimbabwe, Dr. Nils Bergman introduced a protocol to keep low-weight preterm infants on their mothers, skin to skin, while every other aspect of care remained the same. He found that survival rates for these babies surged from 10 to 50 percent.
We understand that medical concerns may take precedent over our wishes, but we would like you to know what is important to us as parents if we birth by cesarean.