Life-threatening event during skin-to-skin contact in the delivery room

Life-threatening event during skin-to-skin contact in the delivery room.

After an uncomplicated term delivery, a newborn infant experienced a life-threatening even a few minutes after being born. Few such events have been described before, they may be due to suffocation; minor changes in surveillance can probably prevent these potentially devastating events.

Skin-to-Skin Contact After Cesarean Delivery

Mother and Neonate Skin-to-Skin Contact and Exclusive Breastfeeding in the first two months of life: Clinical Trial

Background: Breast milk is the best nutrition and the most valuable gift that every mother offers to her neonate. Exclusive breastfeeding is the best method to feed an infant. Mother and neonate skin-to-skin contact is an effective manner to increase it.  Aim of this study was to investigate the effect of skin-to-skin contact education between mother and infant on the amount of exclusive breast...

midwifes’ opinions about reinforcing factors in skin to skin contact, immediately after delivery: a descriptive study

aim: benefits of skin-to-skin contact (ssc) between mother and her newborn, specifically when it is conducted immediately after birth, have been recognized for more than 40 years. to determine why ssc is not conducted, the present study considers the opinions of the labor working midwifes about the reinforcing factors in ssc immediately after birth in tehran's hospitals in 2012-2013. methods: i...

An Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project to Implement Maternal/Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact During Cesarean Delivery

Immediate skin-to-skin contact between a mother and her newborn has been associated with successful breastfeeding outcomes. One of the challenges nurses face in promoting skin-to-skin occurs in the operating room during a cesarean delivery. Utilizing an interprofessional approach for this quality improvement project, we successfully implemented skin-to-skin contact for all eligible mother/infan...