AWHONN Practice Brief: Immediate and Sustained Skin-to-Skin Contact for the Healthy Term Newborn After Birth

AWHONN Practice Brief: Immediate and Sustained Skin-to-Skin Contact for the Healthy Term Newborn After Birth

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Recommendations:
The following recommendations represent the consensus of the AWHONN Power of Touch Scientific
Advisory Panel. Although AWHONN recommends skin-to-skin contact for preterm infants in other
resources, the focus of the literature review for this practice brief was full-term, healthy newborns.