Skin-to-Skin Contact with Your Newborn
Benefits of skin-to-skin bonding with your baby include:
- Improved bonding between both of you.
- The effects calm the mother and the baby.
- It stabilizes your baby’s body temperature.
- It stabilizes your baby’s heartbeat and breathing, blood pressure, body oxygenation and blood sugar level.
- It increases your baby’s immunity against non-communicable diseases.
- It reduces their risk of developing allergies.
- It reduces your baby’s crying, thus reducing stress and their energy use.
- Baby feels more secure.
- It allows baby to find the breast and self-attach which result in effective suckling.
