Barb - The midwives bathed Matthew when they took him and DH off to the special care nursery, they bathed him, dressed him gave him his Vit K and Hip B injections all without me being present or informed on what they were doing with him, luckily Mark was with him all the time. The next day, the midwife came in and took over and bathed him, after that I was transferred to my post natal care hospital (thankgoodness) at this hospital midwives were lovely but Mark did the baths as they didn`t want me to stand over the bath and hurt my stitches.
I finally bathed Matthew at home for the first time, he was 12 days old. I didn`t mind Mark bathing him, it was lovely to watch and see them both bond but I was not impressed that they took him away from me so soon after birth to get him washed and dressed.
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