The effect of mother and newborn early skin-to-skin contact on initiation of breastfeeding, newborn temperature and duration of third stage of labor

Abstract Background Mother and newborn skin-to-skin contact (SSC) after birth brings about numerous protective effects; however, it is an intervention that is underutilized in Iraq where a globally considerable rate of maternal and child death has been reported. The present study was conducted in or...

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Main Authors: Kolsoom Safari, Awaz Aziz Saeed, Shukir Saleem Hasan, Lida Moghaddam-Banaem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:International Breastfeeding Journal
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13006-018-0174-9