Sheila Marton, RN, IBCLC
Sheila Marton recognized during her career as a LactationConsultant through trainings she had attended, that initial and continuous skin to skin, between mother and baby in the postpartum period is key to promoting parental bonding, attachment and breastfeeding. In order to improve this contact she is working to decrease the amount of separation between mothers and their babies postpartum. She began this change by teaching the importance of skin to skin time and mother-baby contact in her Breastfeeding and New baby care classes prenatally as well as practicing it with patients after delivery.
The process of implementing these changes has been evolving over the past few years but already Ms. Marton has seen better results with the mothers and babies she’s worked with. Educated mothers have expressed enjoyment and she has seen babies respond by being more calm and feeding better. She has seen this improved practice of of increased skin to skin contact continue in the practice of mothers after they leave the hospital. In order to build on this work, Ms. Marton is in the process of implementing the state funded Birth and Beyond California project (derived from Carol Melcher at Loma Linda, The Birth and Beyond California Program teaches participating Orange County hospitals, administrators and staff the importance of modifying their birthing practices for better transitioning/attachment for Mother and baby after delivery.
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