I am also charged with rewritting our thermoregulation policy. We have submitted our S2S policy but we do have a nurse that keeps asking me about instead of skin to skin or using a radiant warmer why can't we just use swaddling to help the newborn thermoregulate. I told her that I could not find any research to back that practice right after birth. Does anyone have any evidence that support swaddling as a way to initiate thermoregulation after birth? I do not want to seperate our mommies and our babies but after skin to skin we have always used a radiant warmer to thermoreguate (if needed and temp is not climbing)and once temp is stable swaddle. I would love to initiate a study to try swaddling instead of a radiant warmer but need a least one study that supports this as a method of thermoregulation at birth . 
Thanks, 
Kelly

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