"How is the baby going to notice?
Baby will be clean, dry, warm and fed. Last time I checked that was all a newborn needed"
At what point do we start treating them as human beings instead of hamsters who only have physical needs, not emotional?
"I think if many of us could stop ourselves from trying to do everything perfectly, we might benefit from using the nursery at night, or letting baby have a bottle from the midwife"
Sorry - providing normal physiological care for a newborn - close contact and breastfeeding - like most women around the world do without thinking about it, is 'perfect'? Last time I looked it was 'normal'.
And how do babies benefit from being given formula if breastmilk is available?
Note - almost every single comment here is about the needs of adults.
"In most cultures, the family would step in to help the new mum"
Yes - by caring for her AND her baby. Together. Not by removing the baby.
"Having your baby 'sleep on your chest for the first 3 nights' is meant to be an indicator of what exactly"
Never heard of 'kangaroo care'? Newborn babies are often happiest to sleep on mum's chest because 1) they are close to her breasts and can smell her milk 2) they can smell her skin and are comforted by it 3) they can hear her heartbeat, which is the sound which the most familiar to them, and therefore comforting 4) they can hear her voice and that it also comforting 4) the warm of her body stabilises their temperature.
Oh but hang on, this isn't about what's comforting and lovely for a tiny little newborn baby who's getting used to a completely new world.
This is about adult comfort and convenience.
Hence almost none of these posts speculate much about how a newborn baby might be feeling - their experience of being new to the world.
Because babies are just blobs aren't they? Not real people. 