surgical delivery

Yet even those who know they will need a surgical delivery, and who take care to plan them, often say the experience was made more difficult, traumatic or dehumanizing because of their doctors’ attitudes toward their disabilities.

In the first hour after delivery, even if it’s a surgical delivery, use your hands to massage your breasts, gently squeezing the forefinger and thumb in a rhythmic way to trigger milk ejection, Dr. Feldman-Winter suggested.

Certainly, a surgical delivery can be lifesaving when, for example, the fetus or the mother is at risk of a serious or fatal complication from a vaginal delivery.

This forces the pancreas to work overtime to produce insulin and can increase the size of the baby, which may lead to injuries during childbirth for mom and baby and increase the likelihood of surgical delivery by cesarean section, or C-section.

Dr. Neu said the broad-spectrum antibiotics prescribed to the mother before a surgical delivery were another concern; the antibiotics can be transmitted to the baby through breast milk if not before birth, decreasing the diversity of natural bacteria.