I remember fighting back the tears when I saw newborns in
hospital warming beds, crying out for human contact.
Not exact matches
Some deliver their babies in a
hospital bed, some in their own
bed at home, and some in a tub of
warm water.
The clock, the
warming bed before baby is born, the
hospital bracelets.
Breastfeeding, on the other hand, is difficult — aside from the inherent challenges in figuring it out, if you want to do it at night in most
hospitals, you have to get out of your
warm bed and sit in some chair in the nursery, while formula feeding mothers peacefully sleep through the night.
Other issues in the
hospital include delaying the new mommy's ability to begin breastfeeding immediately by removing the baby to a
warming bed instead of laying the baby on the mommy's tummy, and too early interventions such as eye ointment, bathing the baby, and taking the baby to the nursery to be evaluated in the absence of medical necessity.
If your newborn baby has an infection, she may be taken to the special care nursery of the
hospital, where she will be placed on a
warming bed or in an incubator to regulate her body temperature.
When you sit in the
warm water, it is easier for you to move, as opposed to being in a rigid
hospital bed (the only benefit to the
bed I found was the rails to hold onto!)
Three
beds on three levels in three colors:
warm pink - peach,
hospital blue, and pure white.