Skin-to-skin Contact With Fathers Benefits Newborns

Providing skin-to-skin contact with fathers helps newborns after cesarean delivery, revealed a new study.

Providing skin-to-skin contact with fathers helps newborns after cesarean delivery, revealed a new study published in Acta Paediatrica.

For the study, 95 newborns were randomized to the cot, father's arms, or skin-to-skin contact with the father after cesarean section delivery.

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‘Providing skin-to-skin contact with the father may provide benefits to a newborn.’

The study results revealed the advantages of skin-to-skin than the cot or fathers' arms groups:

Why is skin-to-skin contact important?

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