Who owns the baby? A video ethnography of skin-to-skin contact after a caesarean section.

CONCLUSION: Providing skin-to-skin contact in the first 2h after caesarean sections has challenges. Despite this, health professionals can meet the mother's desire to 'own' her baby by realising they are one entity, encouraging skin-to-skin contact and avoiding maternal and infant separation. PMID: 29496385 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29496385?dopt=Abstract

Source: Women Birth - February 26, 2018 Category: Midwifery Authors: Stevens J, Schmied V, Burns E, Dahlen HG Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research