Brigham and Women’s Hospital Offering a Family-Centered Cesarean Section

BOSTON (CBS) – Anyone who has had a C-section knows it’s not a pleasant experience.  It’s major surgery and often wrought with anxiety and fear.  Now one local hospital is trying to make it as pleasant for mothers-to-be as possible, something they’re calling a “Gentle C”. Leilani Pascale just delivered her third baby, but instead of having a traditional C-section as she did for her first two, she opted for a “gentle” cesarean section offered at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “It’s something that I will carry with me forever,” she says.  “Now that I was able to see him be born.” Dr. Bill Camann, the Chief of Obstetrical Anesthesiology at the Brigham, has recently made some changes at the hospital to make C-sections more family-centered. “We recognize that this is still a surgical operation,” he says.  “But there are some modifications of a traditional cesarean that we can do to make this better for the patient.” For one, Dr. Camann has begun offering patients a clear surgical drape in the operating room, so that moms can see their babies emerge at the time of delivery. Leilani says that was one of her favorite modifications. “He was put up there right by me and I could talk and touch him through the drape and then I did actually get to touch his little head, before they took him away” recalls Leilani. Also unusual, mom’s chest is kept free of monitoring devices so that within minutes, the baby can be placed on mo...
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