El Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada activates an early contact in Caesarean sections Protocol.
also facilitates the presence of the father.
Spain, February 2012.- all the term babies that arise by caesarean section at the Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, will be able to make the skin contact immediately after birth if conditions clinics of the mother and the newborn born permitting. In the case that you can not occur immediately or need be interrupted will resume as soon as possible.
The implementation of this initiative has been possible thanks to the efforts set professionals linked around childbirth (gynaecologists, midwives, paediatricians, anaesthetists, nurses, etc.). Between them, they have developed a protocol called contact early after caesarean section.
The skin contact provides numerous benefits both to the mother and the newborn, by fostering the rapid establishment of the link and breastfeeding. The best way to maintain cardio-respiratory and thermal stability of a newborn is keeping in touch skin with skin with his mother. There should be no clothes between the skin of the child and the mother to ensure thermoregulation.
The implementation of the Protocol skin properly is important for ensuring its success. In the same operating room and after the birth, the child is placed skin with skin on the torso of the mother while continuing the surgery and then remain together in the resuscitation room. If we momentarily had to suspend the skin contact with skin with his mother, you will be given the option to the father, by placing the child in his torso.
Another of the initiatives referred to with the implementation of this Protocol, is the setting up of a circuit for companions designed to favor the presence of the companion during the caesarean section process wherever possible, as it is the case in the majority of cases.
