Repost from non life threatening -- skin to skin

[kaatybird]

Does anyone have an opinion for pinkies... Skin to skin (with a light cover) vs. his Tupperware box & fleece half on half off heating pad? My last little one (she was about one week when I got her, he is maybe two weeks) thrived wonderfully, skin to skin as often as possible. Usually on my chest, under a light scarf. Just making sure I wasn't just lucky with her. This is the only other little one I've dealt with that was this small!!! Feeling a bit rusty! Thanks guys! :Love_Icon

[island rehabber]

I think the container half-on the heating pad on low is a safer, more constantly warm environment for a pinky. I like to put them in with 'the girls' sometimes as well, but I've noticed that my skin is not always as warm on the outside as it feels from the inside. When we sweat and it evaporates it really cools off our skin -- that can chill the little pinky and you wouldn't even realize it. :)

[kaatybird]

I think the container half-on the heating pad on low is a safer, more constantly warm environment for a pinky. I like to put them in with 'the girls' sometimes as well, but I've noticed that my skin is not always as warm on the outside as it feels from the inside. When we sweat and it evaporates it really cools off our skin -- that can chill the little pinky and you wouldn't even realize it. :)

That is exactly the info I was looking for!!! Thank you so much, I'll still give him a little snuggle time, but worry less when he is in his little infant environment. I know I have the set up perfect but I still find myself checking in him every 10 minutes!! I forgot how scary pinkies can be those first two weeks. I feel like an overbearing mother! Haha :blowkiss

[island rehabber]

I know I have the set up perfect but I still find myself checking in him every 10 minutes!! I forgot how scary pinkies can be those first two weeks. I feel like an overbearing mother! Haha :blowkiss

You can't be too overbearing with pinkies. Their own squirrel mammas don't leave them at all, hardly, for those first two weeks. They're a full time job; trust me I know. I've got 7. :grin3