There are many common routines that are practiced at each delivery. Here are the most common routines all of these are designed to improve the safety of your newborn child. When your child is delivered there should be an attendant whose responsibilities is to care for the infant. There is an exception, if there has been complications during delivery the infant should be attended by a pediatrician or other doctor who will care for the baby immediately after birth. Infants are not held up by the feet and smacked in order to begin crying, this is for the movies.
Most infants breathe and cry immediately after birth.
The fact the infant s chest is forced through a narrow birth canal removes must of the fluid from the infant s lungs. This enables the child to begin immediately breathing. All delivery rooms should be equipped with infant warmers, or the infant should be wrapped snugly in a blanket. It takes a while for a baby s temperature to begin working properly. One of the worst things that can happen to a newborn is for its body temperature to drop rapidly, this can and has happened if a newborn is left wet and exposed at normal room temperature.