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For example, UNICEF and the NHS recommend skin-to-skin contact between a parent and newborn. This involves placing a newborn on a parent's bare chest, both of them covered in a warm blanket, for at ...

While more hospitals have implemented skin-to-skin care after vaginal births, very few have extended this practice to the operating room (OR) after cesarean births. Yet, stable mothers and babies ...

Now it's common practice to prioritize skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby and it may be even more important for those born prematurely or with a low birth weight. During skin-to-skin ...

Hospital protocols can be modified to support uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth for both vaginal and cesarean births. The first hour of life outside the womb is a special ...