Nowadays, more and more parents are becoming involved as much as mothers in raising and caring for their children. Whether loading them, changing diapers or helping them to know the world around them, parents can do almost the same activities as mom. Although when it comes to breastfeeding, that continues to be exclusive to mom, right?
A father just tested us, that if necessary, Dad could also help "breastfeed" the baby. We share the history and images of father who breastfed his baby and made skin with skin while mom was recovering from a caesarean section.
April and Maxamillian Kendall Neubauer recently became parents of a baby named Rosalia. Since their pregnancy, they talked about how things would be once they had their baby, and one of them was that they would make skin-to-skin contact and they would start breastfeeding when Rosalia was born.
However, and as sometimes happens when it comes to childbirth, things did not go as planned. During the last month before Rosalia was born, doctors were constantly checking April, because she had high blood pressure. When they attended what was their last review, the nurses did a test, finding that their blood pressure was too high and they were no longer allowed to go home because of the preeclampsia they presented.
In Babies and more, the Japanese have invented it: they create an artificial breast so that parents can "breastfeed" the babySince doctors wanted to prevent preeclampsia from evolving into eclampsia, the best thing was that April already gave birth to her baby. The doctors then decided to induce labor through an amniotomy, which is the artificial rupture of the bag.
Near midnight, and when April was nine centimeters dilated, He suffered an epileptic seizure caused by eclampsia, so he had an emergency caesarean section. Maxamillian tells Love What Matters that he was able to enter the operating room, but while they were performing the surgery, April had a second seizure, so they asked him to wait outside.
Finally, her baby was born and a nurse took her to him to meet her. As he had talked to April, he immediately removed his shirt to make skin with skin from the first minutes of his baby's life. The nurse explained that they should feed little Rosalia and explained the options they would have, because his mother was recovering from surgery.
Among those options, the nurse told him about the relay or catheter with chest grip, which is a device formed by a container and a small probe that is attached to the nipple and allows "breastfeeding" the baby. It is especially used in cases where breastfeeding has been interrupted and you want to resume.
After explaining the nurse how it worked and When asked if he wanted to "really breastfeed" his baby, Maxamillian accepted enthusiastically and a teat cup was placed that was connected to the catheter, to start breastfeeding her daughter Rosalia. "The nurses were very helpful. I mean, I had never breastfed and never even thought I would. I was the first to breastfeed our daughter!"says the father.
The nurses who were with him were smiling and very excited about what he was doing for his baby. Soon the grandmother and the great-grandfather of the new baby arrived, and although at first they saw Maxamillian weird, in the end they were happy that he could help start Rosalía's breastfeeding.
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"I felt a connection the moment I saw my little girl. I had the opportunity to support her and I hope I helped her to begin breastfeeding. I did it for being a good dad and being the hero of the nurses, because they are the real superheroines. I couldn't have had someone better than them"concludes the recent dad.
Cybil Martin-Dennehy, was the nurse who explained about the ways to start feeding the baby, says for Motherly that it is not the first time she suggests this option to the parents, but they usually respond with a strong refusal.
Probably most parents would feel somewhat uncomfortable or weird in this situation, but to this dad, breastfeeding his baby was something that gave him and his wife a lot of satisfaction April, who continued breastfeeding after recovering from emergency caesarean section.
Photos | April and Maxamillian Neubauer (reproduced with permission)
Via | Motherly
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