Incorporating nutrition into delivery care: delivery care practices that affect child nutrition and maternal health

ABSTRACT: Abstract Delayed umbilical cord clamping, early skin‐to‐skin contact and early initiation of exclusive breastfeeding are three simple and inexpensive delivery care practices which have the potential to improve short‐term and long‐term nutrition and health outcomes in mothers and infants. In preterm infants, delayed clamping prevents intraventricular haemorrhage and improves haematological status, and in full‐term infants, delayed clamping improves iron status through 6 months of age. Early skin‐to‐skin contact, in addition to regulating neonatal temperature, improves early breastfeeding behaviours, which has important implications for long‐term infant nutrition and health. Finally, early exclusive breastfeeding prevents neonatal mortality and morbidity and provides numerous health and nutr

SUBMITTER: Chaparro C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6860687 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature