So when the Baby is born....

[AnabellasMama]

With my dc's hospital birth they immediatelyweighed, measured etc, then put her in a kimono top, a dipe, a hat and wrapped her up, gave her back to me. Then she went for her bath and then I put a sleeper on her when she came back to me.

With a hb what do you personally put on your babe? Just a dipe and hat wrapped in blanket bc you will weigh and measure in a bit or what so it makes it easier???? Sorry I know this seems like a simple question but I'm stumped as to what to gather to have ready for when baby is born in terms of clothese for her. Just do the sleeper right away?

[cathicog]

usually first thing is let mom have baby on chest for skin-to-skin contact. Then we do a quick newborn exam, and then put hat, dipe and t-shirt on or whatever clothes(or lack of them depending on climate/weather) the parents want. Then baby usually gets wrapped in a blanket and handed back to mom for bonding/nursing time. Later after the first hour we do a thorough newborn exam, and baby is put back in clothes. Personally, I like to let the mom have the baby as much as possible that first hour. As long as baby seems fine right away, we let mom have her...and that includes no clothing if that's what mom wants and it's appropriate.

[AnabellasMama]

thanks! I was thinking both me and the baby naked, nursing with a blanket over us, maybe a dipe and hat since it will be winter time, then wrapping in a blanket, then after the nb care stuff get the baby dressed. Wasn't sure if this was an anything goes or if some sort of "unofficial" procedure was followed! lol

[JorgieGirl]

For the first hour and a half after my DD was born she was skin to skin with either me or DH. Once we got her to latch and have a bit of a go at nursing, she was weighed and exam right on my lap. It was April so a bit warmer, but I definitely recommend turning up your thermostat for a few days once you are in labour for after the birth.

After the exam and weigh we put her in a dipe and sleeper and snuggled into bed for the day (she was born early on a Sun morning). We didn't officially bathe her for over a week. Not entirely necessary for every baby, so we waited.

[JamieCatheryn]

We just wrapped him in blankets for his first few hours, then I put a diaper and clothes on him.

[AnabellasMama]

thanks mamas! My 1dc was born on her edd but was very "cheesy" so a bath was necessary to get the vernix off (she was so "cheesy" the mw made a comment that if she didn't see me at every visit she would've thought she was early due to all the vernix.)
This time around we are planning a home wb so if this babe is just as "cheesy" I could probably get most of it off before exiting the tub and that will bypass the bath huh? Then when I do my herbal bath later take her in then. Sorry just thinking outloud about all the logistics! lol

[JorgieGirl]

My DD was a waterbirth before my EDD and also very cheesy. lol. I was covered in grease just from holding her. The water did take some off. The rest was inadvertently rubbed off just by swaddling, or holding her and what was left we rubbed into her skin. Natures best moisturizer!!

[Youngfrankenstein]

My babe pooped before, during, and after her birth. The mw wiped it up and off of her while I was holding her. I got ushered to bed to birth the placenta so obviously I was holding the baby. My mom warmed a blanket in the dryer and placed it over us. After the newborn exam, which was done next to me on the bed, the mw put her in a sleeper and put a hat on her. She was really gross with pooh and stuff in her hair but we didn't bathe her. We wanted her to keep her temp up. I didn't bathe her until her 3rd day.

[laughingfox]

My DD was ridiculously cheesy. The (homebirth) doctor said that was the most vernix she'd ever seen (even though DD was post-dates). We rubbed it in; she didn't have a bath.
From what I gather, homebirths don't generally include baths for babes.

I just held her, naked and cheesy, for at least a good half-hour before even leaving the birth tub, then held her and nursed as I delivered the placenta, then she lay next to me on the bed for a quick exam before going into a diaper only (it was August, and I had no a/c).
Whether/when to put diaper/clothes on her was totally left up to me, there was no set time for it.

You can definitely just use a sleeper, but you'll probably want a few blankets for the meantime when baby is still wet and cheesy and in your arms before dressing.

Clothes really depend on the season. I'm planning on having a long sleeve shirt, a short sleeve shirt, a hat, a cotton sleep sack, a wool sleep sack, and cotton flannel receiving blankets ready for when my babe is born.
I'm due in April, so I really don't know if it'll be chilly or warm. I'll have to wait and see which items I'll need to use.

[starrmama]

Its all personal preference I think. Midwives may have things they "usually" do, but if you want something else I think all you would need to do is talk about it with your midwife beforehand. For my 2nd dd, she was pretty much naked with me holding her on me in the sling or a blanket for her first month! I was trying EC, so we were just laying prefolds under her, and we really wanted the full experience of skin to skin - not just for the first hour or whatever... we were also doing lotus birth, and its just kind-of hard to put clothes on the baby with that cord still attached! Personally, I loved our clothes-free time. And BTW, it was January, and cold! We just put a space heater and a humidifier in the bedroom and stayed around the house while adjusting to life with a newborn again. Only dressed her that first month or so to go out for "necessary" appointments. My mw was totally on-board with the naked thing, and she has some physiological rationalle for not even recommending a hat on! I wore old button-down men's shirts and kept them open unless we had people over, so that with the sling on or with her sleeping on me, she was warm against my tummy/chest

[GoBecGo]

DD was skin to skin with me for about 90mins after birth, until she'd had her first feed. Then i went for a shower and while i was in it XP cuddled her for a bit then when i came back the midwives wer weighing and measuring her and doing a brief check. We then dressed her (no bath until day 4 or 5 i think) in nappy, vest and sleepsuit, and then i tucked her back into bed with me for another feed after which we all slept for 5 hours. Clothing and when to measure/weigh was left up to me and was certainly not done before the first feed had taken place (even in my local hospital this is the norm - feed first, then numbers and examination)

[Belle]

For an hour or so after the birth I just held her and nursed her. We had a blanket covering both of us. She was also very cheesy. She didn't get a bath until she was around two weeks old or so. We just rubbed the vernix into her skin. No reason to get rid of it.

[amandaleigh37]

We had a bunch of blankets handy, kept him skin-to-skin on my chest with blanket around him, and if that blanket got wet or soiled just wiped him off & grabbed a new one. After a few hours, after we had a bath, then we put a diaper & sleeper on him... but no rush to do that

[Elijahs Momma]

DS was naked for several hours after he was born. He was wrapped in a few blankets and just had a cloth diaper placed in the blanket.

[zoebird]

we had abt 9 hrs of nudity, skin to skin, with placenta attached, and then dressed only for guests or to go out for the first few weeks--maybe 6?

[MyBoysBlue]

We had DS on me naked and a hat at first, with a towel over us both. I got cold from my water gushing as he was born. We didn't think to change the pads quick enough as we were focused on DS and i got chilled. We cut the cord and passed DS to DH and he did skin to skin with DS in just the hat still but they had a blanket over them. After we got the placenta out, I was still chilled so I got into a warm bath with DS. We just rubbed in the bit of vernix he had, no washing or soap. In bed we did add a diaper to the hat but again it was skin to skin and blankets over us both.

[JennTheMomma]

With this baby we're going to probably just put a diaper on him and then have me and baby wrapped in a blanket. MW can do all the assesments while I hold him, except for weighing, but that doesn't need to be right away.

[onyxravnos]

NAK

we nursed and hung out naked until the placenta came out only adding a diaper to him and a blanket over his back. then after a while we got him into a onsie.

we actually didn't weight/messure until 4 days later beacuse our bathroom scale wasn't working...