Dear all,

Another question for you, wise women (and you, Nils! hahaha).

What about this statement?

Does it make any difference whether a baby is put on mom's skin straight after birth, within the first hour or still later? That is not known, because there are insufficient research data available. Researchers also did not find studies concerning the influence of, for example, the temperature of the room, lack of privacy, pacifier use, prematurity and birth through C-section.

All of this seems extremely counterintuitive to me...
I'd love to see your views discussed here, as well as reference to or pdf's of studies; thanks!
It's for an important document that will be widely spread, so it seems pretty essential that the info is correct.
I feel that this statement is grossly underrating the great importance of skin-to-skin and the knowledge about it... :-(

Bye,

Marianne Vanderveen IBCLC, Netherlands

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