The document discusses the benefits of skin-to-skin contact between mothers and newborn babies. Skin-to-skin contact involves placing the naked baby directly on the mother's bare chest within the first hour after delivery. This practice has important health benefits for both babies and mothers, such as improved heart and lung function for babies, stabilization of body temperature, initiation of breastfeeding, and reduced crying for babies. For mothers, skin-to-skin contact provides calming effects and reduces stress while also increasing milk production and improving breastfeeding.

1. Benefits of Skin to Skin
Contact
Brittanie Lewis

2. Skin to Skin Contact
Skin to Skin contact happens within the first hour of
delivery. The newborn baby is placed directly on the
mothers bare chest between her breasts.

3. Skin to Skin Contact
All babies that are born healthy are placed on mothers
chest for an uninterrupted time of one hour. If babies are
born and are not crying the nursery nurse will take baby
to the warmer and stimulate baby. Once baby is
stimulated and crying then baby is immediately returned
to mom for skin to skin.

4. Skin-to-Skin
Skin-to Skin has very important health
benefits for both mom and baby.

5. Benefits of Skin to Skin for Baby
• Improvement in heart and lung function
• Stabilization of body temperature
• Initiation of breastfeeding
• Reduction of crying
• Maternal-child bonding time

6. Benefits of Skin to Skin for Parents
Mom Dad
▪ Calm, Soothes, & reduces
stress
▪ Reduces anxiety for first
time dads
▪ Increases mother’s milk
production
▪ Improves breastfeeding