A Mother‐Centered Approach to Skin‐to‐Skin in the Operating Room

The realization of BFHI Step 4 in Finland – Initial breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact according to mothers and midwives

“…Skin-to-skin contact helps infants begin initial breastfeeding more quickly and easily (Bystrova et al, 2009;Widström et al, 2011;Moore et al, 2012) after both vaginal birth (Aghdas et al, 2014;Brennan and Callaway, 2014;Redshaw et al, 2014) and caesarean section (Brady et al, 2014;Sundin and Mazac, 2014). Skin-to-skin contact has a positive influence on infants' sucking (Bystrova et al, 2007;Moore et al, 2012) and it allows infants to suck at precisely the time they are ready to suck (Walters et al, 2007;Bystrova et al, 2009), and so it should be first therapy to first line management for sucking problems (Vasquez and Berg, 2012).…”