Contents:
- Medical Video: Skin-to-skin C-section promotes health, bonding
- How to make skin contact with a baby after giving birth
- Benefits of skin contact with babies after childbirth
- 1. Gives warmth to the baby and helps control his body temperature
- 2. Give peace to the baby
- 3. Helps build bonds between mother and baby or father with baby
- 4. Support the success of exclusive breastfeeding
Medical Video: Skin-to-skin C-section promotes health, bonding
After giving birth, you must feel tired. However, do not rest first, your task is not finished. After giving birth you must still provide your energy to make skin contact with the baby. Although it seems simple, the benefits it provides are very important for the baby. For that, don't miss this moment.
How to make skin contact with a baby after giving birth
The moment of skin contact between mother and baby after childbirth is quite simple. Right after giving birth, the baby is placed on your chest. While nurses dry babies and cover babies with warm blankets. The baby will then try to recognize yourself, lick your skin, and look for your nipples to suckle.
Although it seems easy to do, but this important moment after giving birth brings many important benefits for the baby.
Benefits of skin contact with babies after childbirth
1. Gives warmth to the baby and helps control his body temperature
The temperature of the environment around the baby after birth is certainly different from the temperature when the baby is still in the womb. So, so that the baby does not feel this difference too much, you need to put the baby in the mother's chest after giving birth. Mother's skin has the same temperature as the uterus, so the baby will feel warm and calm when in the mother's chest. This also helps maintain the baby's body temperature so the baby does not feel cold. In this way the baby can adjust to the outside environment more easily.
2. Give peace to the baby
When the baby is placed on the mother's chest, the baby can feel the mother's heartbeat and feel the mother's breath, like when she was in the womb. This certainly makes the baby feel more calm. In addition, this can also make the baby have a more normal heart rate and breath. The comfort and calm that this baby gets makes babies cry less after the initial cry at birth.
3. Helps build bonds between mother and baby or father with baby
Skin contact with babies after childbirth also helps babies recognize their mothers. This gives the baby and mother time to bond more closely. Hearing the breath and heartbeat of the mother when the baby is placed on the mother's chest allows the baby to establish deeper bonds with his mother.
Not only with the mother, the baby can also be placed on the father's chest after birth. This also helps the baby in bonding with his father. The baby will recognize the smell from his father, the warmth of his father's skin, and so on.
4. Support the success of exclusive breastfeeding
Skin contact after childbirth is a good start for breastfeeding. Many studies have shown that babies who make skin contact with mothers after birth can suckle better.
When the baby is placed on the mother's breast, the baby tends to look for the mother's nipple to suckle. So that the mother's body will respond by providing more milk. This can then facilitate ASI production and support the success of exclusive breastfeeding. Making skin contact between mother and baby during the first few weeks after birth can make it easier for mothers to know when babies should be breastfed.
