What are the benefits of Family Centered Maternity Care?
• There is better communication between healthcare providers, including obstetricians and pediatricians who work with one nurse instead of two. • Questions are answered more quickly because nurses care for both mother and baby. • The mother and her nurse have a closer relationship because the mother spends more time with her nurse while she cares for both mother and baby. • Parents receive better education as the mother-baby nurse demonstrates baby care at the mother’s bedside. She will also teach the mother how to best care for herself. • Parents don’t miss special moments with their baby. Because the baby care takes place in the mother’s room, parents share in the special moments and have more quiet time getting to know their baby. • Babies cry less. Studies have shown that babies actually cry much less when they are close to their mothers. • Feeding is easier. A mother can feed her baby whenever he or she is hungry, on the baby’s schedule. • Breastfeeding is likely to be more succes
