Early skin-to-skin contact between healthy late preterm infants and their parents: an observational cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Skin-to-skin contact (SSC) is an important factor to consider in the care of late preterm infants (born between 34 0/7 and 36 6/7 completed weeks of gestation). The literature suggests that SSC between preterm infants and their mothers facilitates breastfeeding. However, more studies are needed to explore potential dose-response effects between SSC and breastfeeding as well as studies that explicitly investigate SSC by fathers among late preterm infants. The aim was to investigate the duration of healthy late preterm infants' SSC with the mother and father, respectively, during the first 48 h after birth and the associations with breastfeeding (exclusive/partial at discharged), clinical and demographic variables.

Methods

This was an observational cohort study in w

SUBMITTER: Nyqvist KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5667536 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature