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P. Château, B. Wiberg (1977)
LONG‐TERM EFFECT ON MOTHER‐INFANT BEHAVIOUR OF EXTRA CONTACT DURING THE FIRST HOUR POST PARTUM II. A Follow‐up at Three monthsActa Pædiatrica, 66
Kajsa Brimdyr, Jeni Stevens, K. Svensson, Anna Blair, Cindy Turner-Maffei, Julie Grady, Louise Bastarache, Abla Alfy, J. Crenshaw, E. Giugliani, U. Ewald, R. Haider, W. Jonas, M. Kagawa, Siri Lilliesköld, R. Maastrup, Ravae Sinclair, E. Swift, Yuki Takahashi, K. Cadwell (2023)
Skin‐to‐skin contact after birth: Developing a research and practice guidelineActa Paediatrica, 112
K. Erlandsson, Ann Dsilna, I. Fagerberg, K. Christensson (2007)
Skin-to-skin care with the father after cesarean birth and its effect on newborn crying and prefeeding behavior.Birth, 34 2
P. Château, B. Wiberg (1977)
LONG‐TERM EFFECT ON MOTHER‐INFANT BEHAVIOUR OF EXTRA CONTACT DURING THE FIRST HOUR POST PARTUM I. First Observations at 36 hoursActa Pædiatrica, 66
D. Acolet, K. Sleath, A. Whitelaw (1989)
Oxygenation, Heart Rate and Temperature in Very Low Birthweight Infants during Skin‐to‐Skin Contact with Their MothersActa Pædiatrica, 78
A. Whitelaw, G. Heisterkamp, K. Sleath, D. Acolet, Martin Richards (1988)
Skin to skin contact for very low birthweight infants and their mothers.Archives of Disease in Childhood, 63
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and its effect on new - born crying and prefeeding behavior
R. Feldman, Zehava Rosenthal, A. Eidelman (2014)
Maternal-Preterm Skin-to-Skin Contact Enhances Child Physiologic Organization and Cognitive Control Across the First 10 Years of LifeBiological Psychiatry, 75
E. Hucklenbruch-Rother, C. Vohlen, Nava Mehdiani, T. Keller, B. Roth, A. Kribs, K. Mehler (2020)
Delivery room skin-to-skin contact in preterm infants affects long-term expression of stress response genesPsychoneuroendocrinology, 122
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Apparent Life-Threatening Events in Presumably Healthy Newborns During Early Skin-to-Skin ContactPediatrics, 127
This edition includes the important article “Skin‐to‐skin contact after birth: developing a research and practice guideline” by Brimdyr et al.1 They give an excellent overview of the huge quantity of evidence supporting skin‐to‐skin contact after birth and give evidence‐based guidelines, endorsing the recommendations of the World Health Organisation, that “immediate, continuous, uninterrupted skin‐to‐skin contact should be the standard of care for all mothers and all babies (from 1000 grams with experienced staff if assistance is needed), after all modes of birth”.Skin‐to‐skin contact for newborns and their mothers seems such a natural and obvious activity that many nurses, midwives, neonatologists, and parents may not know how recent it is, how it became established and how it has been tested.The first published descriptions of skin‐to‐skin contact were by Peter de Chateau in Sweden in 1977 and concerned term infants born in good condition after normal delivery. He found that the mothers who had had skin‐to‐skin contact in the first hour were more confident in handling their babies than those in a control group. At 3 months, more of the skin‐to‐skin infants were still breast feeding. They cried less and smiled more.2,3 These papers received little attention in the perinatal world, and routine
Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing The Child – Wiley
Published: Aug 1, 2023
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