After A Cesarean Section, Can A Woman Hold Her Baby? - Dr. Grayson

Dr. Grayson:
Not as acutely as if you had a vaginal delivery. So at the time a baby is delivered vaginally that baby can come straight from the perineum from the vagina on to mom’s tummy for immediate skin-to-skin contact. It actually would be part of the warming process. In a cesarean section, because the abdomen and the field is sterile until the abdomen is closed, that skin-to-skin contact has to wait until the abdomen is closed and that sterile natures isn’t necessarily needed anymore.

That usually happens though within 20 to 30 minutes after the procedure is over and the couple and the baby are in the recovery room together and then skin-to-skin can take place.

About Dr. Robert C. Grayson, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.:
Robert C. Grayson, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., is board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and on staff at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz. He received his undergraduate degree in biology at University of California, Riverside and his Masters of Public Health from the University of California School of Public Health in Los Angeles before completing his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles.

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