Monday, 21 January 2013

I learned how to bathe my baby in the hôpital


In Philippines after you gave birth, your baby stays in the nursery room with the rest of the babies in the hospital; the nurse takes your baby to your room whenever you need to feed him. For family, relatives, and friends they get the chance to see your baby through the window of the nursery room during the viewing time. But it’s not like that here in France. After I gave birth, they took me and my baby to the recovery room (like a private room). I got the chance to bond with my new born baby, I breastfed her every 3 hours and changed her diaper every time it was needed to be changed. My mother-in-law didn't need to view my baby through the window; she could get inside the room. During my 5 days stay in the recovery room, my husband was allowed to sleep in the room, he translated everything the nurse and midwife told me. I don’t know how I could have survived the French hôpital without my husband.  On my first night in the recovery room, the midwife and nurse asked me if I was tired, they offered to take my baby with them for the night and take her to me when I needed to breastfeed her. After all the pain I went through and shouting I did that day, I agreed. But they told me the next following days, my baby should stay with me. The next day, the nurse came and said he would show me how to bathe my baby, and asked me to come, so I would know how to bathe her because the next following days I would have to do it on my own. I am glad that I was taught because I didn't know how to do it then. 

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