Skin-to-skin contact during caesarean delivery

Skin-to-Skin Contact After Cesarean Delivery

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...

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.

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...

Exploring the skin-to-skin contact experience during cesarean section.

PURPOSE To explore and describe the mother's experience of holding her neonate in skin-to-skin contact (SSC) immediately after cesarean delivery during surgical closure and recovery. DATA SOURCES Eleven women between the ages of 23 and 38 years, who had achieved 39.1-40.2 weeks gestational age, participated in an ethnographic study using observations and interviews with the mothers conducted ...