Keep your newborn with you as much as possible, rooming in with her at the hospital if you feel up to it. Familiarity builds confidence. Closeness promotes familiarity, and when you keep your baby in your arms and in contact with your body, the connection between you deepens and you become more sensitive to his needs. There's no one right place for a baby to sleep. Still, sharing sleep is valuable, particularly for parents who don't have much daytime contact with their baby, because it allows them to reconnect at night.
Extra touch builds extra intuition.
A baby's cry is designed to ensure his survival. You're programmed to respond, not to restrain yourself. Experiments have shown that when mothers hear a baby cry, their heart rate and the blood flow to their breasts increase, and they have a nearly uncontrollable urge to pick up the baby and comfort him. Answering your baby's cries teaches him to trust you and helps you learn to trust your own intuition. When you go against your instinctive response, you turn a deaf ear on your baby's only form of expression.