The World Health Organization has always recommended that newborn infants be placed “skin to skin” contact with the mother immediately after the birth. There are numerous benefits to doing this, versus no important negative effects. In the study Puig G, Sguassero Y. Early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants: RHL commentary (last [...]
Many amazing changes take place in the new mother and her baby during the Golden Hour after birth. Natures hormones which worked overtime during labor and childbirth have initiated a sequence of events, both physical and emotional in the mother which stimulates her brain chemistry to increase her desire for nurturing her baby. It is [...]
A woman in Australia is reported to have cuddled her premature baby back to life, even though her doctors had pronounced the baby dead. Times of India recently carried an article about a mother in Sydney, Australia who had given birth to twins, out of which doctors could save only one. When the doctor told [...]
An recent study conducted by Professor Patricia Conway of the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales, said babies born naturally received protective bacteria as they passed through mother’s birth canal during delivery. Numerous studies before this one have proven this fact. The study reinforces the importance of good [...]
Current practices in most hospitals in India separate mother and baby after birth. After a normal delivery, hospitals should follow evidence-based and WHO recommended guidelines to allow mother and baby to be in skin-to-skin contact, and encourage the practice of nursing within the first hour of birth. The American Academy of Pediatrics also strongly advocates [...]
What is needed for effective breastfeeding in the first hours after birth? First and foremost, multi-disciplinary research has shown that skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby within the first hour of birth (amongst its many other benefits), is extremely necessary to start off a series of responses – hormonal, physical, and psychological – in both [...]