Skin to Skin with Your Newborn Baby

The best place for your newborn to be is skin-to-skin with you. It allows the baby to stay at an ideal temperature and regulate his or her breathing and heart rate using the least amount of energy, keeping calm and comfortable. It can also help with breastfeeding. Having your partner or anyone you trust and love enough to hold your newborn skin to skin also provides benefits to them and to you!

Skin-to-skin is bare skin contact between your baby and yourself. Your baby is born knowing how to nurse and is most alert for the first two to three hours of life. We suggest that you bring your baby skin-to-skin in the birth room. It is normal for baby to simply lick or nuzzle the nipple as he or she remembers your taste and scent when you bring him or her to breast for the first time.

To learn more click:
http://www.womenandinfants.org/havingababy/feedingyourbaby/what-is-skin-to-skin.cfm

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