To Hat or Not to Hat, That is the Strange Conundrum | Spirit of Ilithyia

To Hat or Not to Hat, That is the Strange Conundrum | Spirit of Ilithyia

 Have you heard the phrase, “Stop hatting, chatting and patting?”  I first heard the phrase from California midwife, Carla Hartley, who has studied during her thirty year midwifery career, the affects that interventive third stage practices have on both mother and newborn.  There are multi-faceted layers behind why hatting, chatting and patting are disruptive to the mother-baby dyad, but they all encompass the importance of giving mom and baby uninterrupted time to participate in the physiological process of bonding immediately following the birth.