Implementing Skin-to-Skin Contact for Cesarean Birth

Early skin-to-skin (STS) contact in the OR facilitates the development of mothering behaviors, breastfeeding success, and newborn adaptation to extrauterine life. A team at my institution performed a quality improvement project to implement a standard of care for STS contact in the OR during and after cesarean birth. Thirty-seven of 50 mother-infant dyads experienced STS contact in the OR or in the postanesthesia care unit. Twenty-five mothers and newborns who experienced STS contact did so on the OR bed.

Source: AORN Journal - May 27, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Margaret M. Boyd Tags: Featured article Source Type: research