He was offered skin-to-skin with his baby in childbirth and then charged in the hospital bill

The benefits of practicing skin to skin with the newborn are undeniable. Placing the baby on the mother's breast as soon as she is born in direct contact with her skin helps her, among other things, to regulate the temperature, to calm down after the stress of childbirth and facilitates the first take, contributing to start breastfeeding with good foot

It does not involve any medical intervention, it simply consists of placing the baby as it is born, naked, in the mother's breast also naked. Obviously, it has no economic cost, so you can imagine the surprise that the father of the creature took when receiving your wife's cesarean delivery bill with a charge of almost 40 dollars (39.35 to be more exact, about 35 euros) for doing skin to skin with your baby.

The amount itself is not significant when compared to the total price of the invoice, but the detail of the charge deserved a highlight, so he decided to share a photo of the invoice in Reddit, where he received thousands of user comments.

According to the recent father, the nurse asked his wife during the caesarean section if she would like to do skin to skin with her baby, to which of course she said yes. Who would refuse to do it? What they did not imagine at all is that it was considered as an extra service for which they should later pay.

When the baby was born, the father says, he held the baby on the mother's chest for a few minutes. Even the nurse herself agreed to take photos at that time of the two with her newborn baby, making them live a positive and rewarding experience.

Charge for skin with skin?

It is a relatively new practice in delivery rooms. It is not that it was not done before, but it probably was not repaired, it was simply considered as a natural practice in the process of giving birth.

Now that they talk so much and promote themselves, due to the benefits they have shown that they have, even in the long term, parents are more informed and ask to do so with their babies. A practice that even the father can do just like the mother or when she cannot.

But charge for something so spontaneous, natural and necessary how it is to place your child on the chest at birth to feel it for a few minutes, as if it were a sauce added to the menu of the day is really absurd.

Video: Why Hospital Charged Dad $40 For Skin To Skin Contact With Newborn Son (March 2024).