Over the past year, there have been at least two stories documenting self-assisted Caesarean-sections, and this latest invention is likely to change the experience for mothers even more.
Three nurses in the US have created an invention that will now allow mothers to enjoy skin-to-skin contact with their new babies immediately after their C-section delivery.
The Skin to Skin C-Section Drape – invented by Deborah Burbic, Jess Nicoli and Kimberley Jarrelle – now allows doctors to pass the newborn to the mother through a re-sealable flap and then close it. This ensures that the surgical site is kept sterile while Mum bonds with her baby.
With a combined over 50 years of experience in the industry, these pioneering women created the C-Section Drape to allow women to bond with their babies as soon as they enter the world.
“We were doing skin-to-skin on the vaginal side and seeing how empowering that was to mothers,” Burbic told local media, adding that there was too much risk associated with doing this during C-section births - until now.
Commenting on the significance of the invention, expert Mary Anne Graf said: “It’s great that these nurses invented that, because it does away with one more concern…The operating room has not been a place that has adapted to the kinds of things that we routinely do during vaginal births.”
