{"id":223783,"date":"2025-10-22T05:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/strong-evidence-supports-skin-to-skin-contact-after-birth-as-standard-care"},"modified":"2025-10-22T05:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:26:17","slug":"strong-evidence-supports-skin-to-skin-contact-after-birth-as-standard-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/strong-evidence-supports-skin-to-skin-contact-after-birth-as-standard-care","title":{"rendered":"Strong evidence supports skin-to-skin contact after birth as standard care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strong-evidence-supports-skin-to-skin-contact-after-birth-as-standard-care2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Immediate skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their mothers offers a better start in life, improving a number of key health metrics, according to a newly-updated Cochrane review.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/review\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">review<\/a>, published in the <i>Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews<\/i>, found that babies who have skin-to-skin contact with their mother within the first hour of birth are more likely to see a variety of benefits, including exclusive breastfeeding, optimal body temperatures and blood sugar levels.<\/p>\n<p>While possible benefits for the mother were also studied, such as effects on <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood+loss\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood loss<\/a> and timing of placental delivery, the evidence was less certain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immediate skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their mothers offers a better start in life, improving a number of key health metrics, according to a newly-updated Cochrane review. The review, published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, found that babies who have skin-to-skin contact with their mother within the first hour of birth are more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}