Friday, 24 January 2025

Skin to skin contact at birth reduces the woman's probability of PPH

 Did you know that a newborn baby, having skin-to-skin with its mother at birth and access to her breast for feeding, reduces the woman's probability of experiencing postpartum haemorrhage?

This new study

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:001396687100001?AlertId=dbfbdef5-f56a-4576-9b3c-1250a8dc74ea

found that it does, as we did ten years ago!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026661381500203X?via%3Dihub


Art by the wonderful Amanda Greavette from her Birth Project


#evidencebasedpractice

#reducePPHrate

#skintoskincontactatbirth

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