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Background and AimUpon skin-to-skin contact with the mother, newborns immediately seek their mother's breast and start sucking without help. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of skin-to-skin contact on breast feeding status in full term cesarean section newborns.   Materials and MethodsIn this randomized clinical trial conducted by convenience sampling, 90 pairs of mothers and cesarean section infants were selected and randomly assigned to skin-to-skin (case group n=46) and routine care (control group n=44). In the case group, the mother and newborn were transferred to the ward after cesarean section, and the naked infants in diapers were positioned between their mother’s breasts in a prone position for 1 hour. In the control group, the infant was dressed and put in the cot and later embraced by their mothers to be breastfed according to hospital routine care. During one hour of skin-to-skin …