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Skin‐to‐skin contact for all newborns

Skin‐to‐skin contact for all newborns 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 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing The Child Wiley

Skin‐to‐skin contact for all newborns

Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing The Child , Volume 112 (8) – Aug 1, 2023

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Wiley
Copyright
© 2023 Foundation Acta Pædiatrica. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISSN
0803-5253
eISSN
1651-2227
DOI
10.1111/apa.16859
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Abstract

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

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Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing The ChildWiley

Published: Aug 1, 2023

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