Aim This paper integrates clinical expertise to earlier research about the behaviours of the
healthy, alert, full‐term infant placed skin‐to‐skin with the mother during the first hour after …

Skin-to-skin care (SSC) and rooming-in have become common practice in the newborn
period for healthy newborns with the implementation of maternity care practices that support …

Background Despite the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendation for immediate
skin-to-skin contact (SSC) after birth, separation of mothers and infants seems to be common …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic is an emergency the magnitude of which has not
been encountered for a century. The World Health Organization (WHO) classified the spread …

Aim We systematically reviewed the literature to identify the benefits of early skin‐to‐skin
contact (SSC) for all gestational ages. Methods The MEDLINE, Embase and CINAHL …

Aim To investigate the effects of 60 minutes delivery room skin‐to‐skin contact (DR‐SSC)
compared with 5 minutes visual contact (VC) on mother‐child interaction (MCI), salivary …

Aim Skin‐to‐skin contact immediately after birth is recognised as an evidence‐based best
practice and an acknowledged contributor to improved short‐and long‐term health …

Purpose: The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the effects of the skin‐to‐skin
contact (SSC) method on postpartum depression. Design and Methods: A systematic review …

Background: Although the benefits of immediate, continuous, uninterrupted skin-to-skin
contact (SSC) and early breastfeeding have been widely researched and confirmed, the …

A central goal of The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is the development of clinical
protocols for managing common medical problems that may impact breastfeeding success …