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A Guide to Skin-to-Skin

£110.00

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ISBN: DVD BF16

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Europe £4
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Product description

Skin-to-skin contact in the immediate postnatal period has many benefits. If left undisturbed in skin contact with their mothers after delivery, babies exhibit behaviour such as salivating, rooting, searching and crawling to the breast, thus enabling a successful first breastfeed.

Benefits of skin-to-skin contact:
Skin contact and early feeding promote successful breastfeeding
Skin contact is excellent for maintaining babies' temperature and even correcting hypothermia
Early breastfeeding can increase uterine activity and may reduce the risk of postoartum haemorrhage
Early mother-infant contact plays an important role in the maintainance of maternal behaviour in other mammals, and this may also be true in humans
There is no set amount of time you should spend in skin-to-skin contact. However, professionals agree that the longer a baby stays in skin contact, the greater the health benefits will be.

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Running time: 7 minutes

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