Jessica (OBGYN)
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We do delayed cord clamping, get some blood flow back into baby.
We want to do that skin to skin for that first hour.
Our hospital is really about mom and baby bonding.
But yeah, we get them to stimulate and cry and give us that good first really great cry.
A shocking number of Americans can't read.
I hold them up and spank them on the butt, but we don't do that anymore.
So I just sometimes flick its little foot, like underneath its foot.
It's all about pissing the babies off, getting them that good cry.
But we have such a great team at our hospital.
Our nurses are so great bedside.
So I'm very lucky and I do really love my job.
Well, I think knowing anatomy is really important.