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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3684039" data-attributes="member: 39593">This is not so much advice about the baby as the hospital.  Don't let the baby out of your sight at the hospital, not for so much as a moment, make sure your child stays with his mother.  One those first few hours are extremely important to mother-child bonding.  Two hospitals DO accidentally switch babies from time to time, though not as frequently now as they used to and the only way to be certain is to never have your eyes off your child in the hospital.  Third your child is more likely to catch ill if he stays in the nursery.  On a more positive note since you've said that your wife intends to breastfeed the milk produced for the first few days is extremely important as it carries anti-bodies from your wife's immune system to boost the babies own immune system.</blockquote>