Skin-to-Skin

Skin-to-skin contact after birth helps to:

1. Stabilize you baby’s heart rate, breathing, and temperature
2. Stabilize your own temperature
3. Prevent baby blues later on
4. Reduce your baby’s stress
5. Reduce your baby’s pain from medical procedures
6. Reduce your stress
7. Increase interactions between you and your baby
8. Increase likelihood of breastfeeding

Wiessinger D., West D. , and Pitman T. (2010) The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.