Post birth question

[Taryngep2017]

This may be so random but I have literally wondered this for almost 9 years next month. I had my daughter on boxing day by section at 1.01am boxing day after a nearly 40 hour induction/labor. I have read non stop especially following the maternity page of my local hospital trust (the have even had posts that EVERY baby has this) that they ALL get a hat put on them after their birth. My daughter is the literal ONLY baby from parents I have ever spoken too that did not have a hat put on them. Obviously she is healthy and it isnt a criticism but I just wonder why? It was December, it was actually snowing on the night she was born, nothing was ever mentioned about an abnormal temperature. She was 100% healthy infact anything they ever mentioned health wise was about me. I've just always wondered why? Was there a reason? I didnt have too much of a complaint about our nhs care apart from the fact I felt/knew naturally it was skeleton staff as it was Christmas day into boxing day. Everytime i see a post about hats on our local maternity page that every baby gets a hat and that they regularly reach out for people to make them makes me wonder??! Any thoughts in my first world problem haha (picture has a hat we put on the day after)

Probably ran out 🤷‍♀️

I don’t know the answer but read your post and saw your picture and what a cutie!! I so much miss my babies being actual babies!! They are now 13,12 and 10.

When mine were born (age 9 and 7 now) we had brought hats in the hospital bag, I never assumed the hospital was going to provide them. They asked DH in both cases what to dress baby in and he helped dress them, including hats, but all clothing was provided by us. Did you give them a hat to put on the baby?

Do you mean a hat provided by the hospital? I have never heard of that! Mine wore hats that I brought with in my hospital bag.

Mine didn’t have a hat at all! Is that some terrible parenting failure. I didn’t know they needed one…

Midwife here.

Hats for newborns interfere with skin to skin, breastfeeding and microbiome

I never put hats on babies that are well. Only when they need resuscitation as a cold baby is extremely hard to resuscitate.

Your baby is stunning 😍

I think some of mine did I’m not sure they all did. If this is your worst complaint about maternity services I think you should remove your post. Many woman and their babies are left in a worst state or are no longer here to ponder about a hat.
We are humans, where babies given hats in the past? Seems such a ridiculous thing to be careing about.

You bring your own hat ime.

ps. My first was also born in December. I got into trouble the day after she was born as still only wrapped in a blanket. She was so big the newborn clothes I’d bought wouldn’t fit and I was waiting for a relative to bring some bigger baby clothes for her!

Aren’t the hats knitted by kindly people and aren’t actually a necessity at all?!

That's interesting. Where I work a hat is put on all babies, usually a knitted one unless parents want us to use their own. It's usually removed before transfer to PN ward/home

We have a massive stash of donated hats, and I used to love pulling the Christmas ones out for December babies!

I also think our trust is about 5 years behind other trusts so maybe we'll be ditching them soon 😅

I work in a Maternity hospital? Babies get hats at CS in the operating room unless they have been delivered with forceps or ventouse (suction), which sometimes is the case even with CS or they’re febrile (e.g due to chorioamnionitis). Otherwise they might have just forgotten! But I’m sure different hospitals have different policies depending on how good they are at facilitating immediate skin to skin for example.

You've been wondering for 9 years why your baby didn't get a hat? You are massively overthinking this op!

Did you read my post? Like I said I just wondered, I literally said first world problem. I also didnt have the besr experience really but I took what was given to me and appreciated it. It was just the amount of posts on my local maternity that regularly highlights the importance of hats on after birth given by the hospital. I have a niece and nephew born two weeks before and another 2 weeks after both given hats and encouragement to keep them on. Just something I have always wondered. Reread the post. I actually personally have a list of things I have that I could bring up care wise, I however gave them the benefit of the doubt because even though I have grievance every single midwife I came across I were truly angels .

Thankyou beautiful, not a deep post what so ever just a wonder of mine over the years as my local hospital regularly posts the importance of this. Why do the grow so fast though??? Always our babies though right. Milking it over here haha

Well this is what I wondered. Its only that I have nieces nephew and friends babies born within those winter months and the fb page seemingly pushing it to this day that confused me. Like I say first world problem. I am no midwife and took me nearly 9 years of wondering to ask lol. Not you but some people in here need not to comment haha

Ah thankyou for this, like I said first world problem. She is nearly 9 now just always wondered. We did however like you see get the cutest little sack and hat the day after for being a Christmas baby. We still use it as a stocking to this day as we love it. Always just wandered if it was a medical reason or just one if those things because literally my local maternity page post about the hat thing regularly and I am not qualified to know if it meant anything. Such a little wonder but a 9 year one haha

Thankyou for this. It was only my local maternity seemed to provide them for all my friends, niece and nephew all 10 of them born within 3 month of each other and they post about it regularly. Just always made me wonder. I mean I had a 8lb4 healthy baby so I figure she was good. Just nosey haha

We got given a knitted hat AND a blanket, both to keep. Every baby did in our hospital. They are keepsakes now.

Saying that, they also have a proper kitchen so cook decent food (which they also sell in the cafe), they serve it to your bed and they actually answer call buzzers promptly. They even volunteered to change my babies nappies the night after my section with my first (dads not allowed to stay at that time).

For ladies that had missed dinner giving birth, a lovely Italian nurse had made a big batch of spaghetti bolognese at home to heat up and give the new mums. She probably broke about a dozen rules in doing that, but was absolutely amazing and I don't care 😁.

Where was my complaint??? Did you read my post??? Trollllll