{"id":14621,"date":"2016-10-09T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14621"},"modified":"2016-10-08T01:49:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T05:49:08","slug":"hospitals-are-charging-mothers-to-hold-their-babies-and-thats-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/hospitals-are-charging-mothers-to-hold-their-babies-and-thats-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals Are Charging Mothers To Hold Their Babies And That\u2019s Ok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/100816_0506_HospitalsAr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pics\/comments\/55qntw\/i_had_to_pay_3935_to_hold_my_baby_after_he_was\/\">outrage on Reddit<\/a> after an itemized hospital\u00a0bill\u00a0showed a $40 charge for &#8220;skin to skin&#8221; contact with a newborn. Jennifer Conti spoke out in defense of the charge:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skin to skin contact is standard practice after a vaginal birth. But until recently it wasn&#8217;t what happened after a\u00a0C-section.<\/li>\n<li>As the medical community has woken to the benefits of skin to skin contact, there has been a push to make sure it happens after a C-section as well.<\/li>\n<li>However it&#8217;s a lot more difficult to do after a surgical birth. The mother still has open incisions in her and is drugged.<\/li>\n<li>To make sure that there are no issues then, the hospital has a nurse oversee the skin to skin contact. The bill just encompasses the cost of the nurse&#8217;s time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire argument on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2016\/10\/05\/hospitals_charge_new_parents_for_skin_to_skin_contact.html\">Slate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was outrage on Reddit after an itemized hospital\u00a0bill\u00a0showed a $40 charge for &#8220;skin to skin&#8221; contact with a newborn. Jennifer Conti spoke out in defense of the charge: Skin to skin contact is standard practice after a vaginal birth. But until recently it wasn&#8217;t what happened after a\u00a0C-section. As the medical community has woken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/100816_0506_HospitalsAr1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14636,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621\/revisions\/14636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}