Healthy Benefits of Skin-To-Skin Contact With Your Baby

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Benefits of Skin-To-Skin Contact With Your Baby
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• The moment the nurse places your newborn in your
  arms or puts your baby on your chest begins the
  first magical golden hour of bonding between you
  and the mewling little one. Skin-to-skin contact
  with your baby is commonly practiced by many
  hospitals. Hospitals even recommend many of you
  continue this practice long after the first hour.
  At least as long as both you and your baby are
  comfortable. Research has shown in these 60
  minutes, you can maximise your bond with your
  baby, and you start knowing each other very well.
  Moreover, this hour is very crucial for your
  babys growth and development.
• Is that all? Not at all!
• Skin-to-skin contact after birth has many more
  benefits both for you and your little one.

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Importance of Skin-to-skin Contact For Your Baby

• Your baby may be born full-term or via an
  emergency C-section, the hospital staff or nurse
  covers your newborn with a warm blanket and gets
  your baby settled on your chest to give the
  pleasure of skin-to-skin immediately after birth
  both to you and your baby. In fact, the earlier
  you start skin-to-skin the better it is.
  Therefore, the numerous benefits of having
  skin-to-skin contact with your little one
  includes

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Keeps the Body Temperature Regulated
After birth, your baby may not be able to keep
his or her own body warm. Your body acts as a
natural body warmer for your baby. The
specialists in the hospital or nursing home, as
already mentioned above, can simply make your
baby lie down on your abdomen and chest, take
measures to dry the baby off while he or shes
still there, and cover the baby with a warm
blanket, to keep your little one warm! The impact
becomes clearer with the skin-to-skin while
breastfeeding. Roughly 90 of full-term neonates
are medically recommended to breastfeed in the
first 28 days of their life to keep his or her
body temperature regulated.
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Skin-to-skin ContactWhile Breastfeeding
Regulates Blood Sugar in Your Baby

• While being snuggled in your womb, your baby will
  get glucose via the placenta. However, if your
  baby has more requirements for glucose, after
  birth, he or she can get it from your breastmilk
  (Fructose, glucose, and lactose are present in
  breast milk).

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Stabilises Your Babys Breathing and Heartbeat

• While being in the womb, the baby receives oxygen
  through the placenta which aids in the foetal
  development and the umbilical cord. After the
  birth, the newborns lungs are filled with fluid
  and the baby may start breathing after 10
  seconds, but breathes with gasps. Uninterrupted
  skin-to-skin care regardless of the breastfeeding
  session will help your baby adapt himself or
  herself to the life outside the mothers womb by
  helping him or her breathe easily and stabilises
  the heartbeat. Additionally, perhaps the sound of
  your heartbeat is also familiar to your baby, and
  skin-to-skin after birth stabilises your babys
  heartbeat too.

Skin-to-skin Care Makes Your Baby Cry Less
Babies cry initially at birth. Some refer to this
crying to be a separation distress call. Your
chest is the best place for your baby to adjust
his or her life outside your womb. So, the touch
of your skin with the initial snuggling and
cuddling of your baby, helps the baby cry less.
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Importance of Skin-to-skin Contact for You
Its not just the babies who are benefitted,
mothers are also benefited. Here are some of the
benefits of skin-to-skin contact for the new moms
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Promotes Bonding

• While having skin-to-skin contact with your baby,
  oxytocin hormones get released. These are also
  known as love hormones, which spark the
  feelings of love and care for your baby and help
  you create a protective environment for him or
  her.

Encourages Breast-milk Production
The increase of oxytocin hormones in you,
stimulates your breast milk production and youre
likely to nurse for a long period of time
Skin-to-skin Contact Reduces Postpartum Depression
Studies reveal that skin-to-skin care after your
infants first month of birth helps in
alleviating your stress and anxiety, thus
reducing your risk of postpartum depression.
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