skin-to-skin – OPQIC

January 17, 2017

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

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…

January 4, 2017

Pediatrics Study: Twenty-year Follow-up of Kangaroo Mother Care versus Traditional Care

The impact of kangaroo mother care (skin-to-skin care with exclusive breastfeeding) may have an impact on the child far beyond the immediate postpartum period. A study published in the January…

August 22, 2016

AAP Clinical Report: Safe Sleep and Skin-to-Skin Care in the Neonatal Period

Published in Pediatrics, Volume 138, Issue 3, September 2016 ABSTRACT: Skin-to-skin care (SSC) and rooming-in have become common practice in the newborn period for healthy newborns with the implementation of…