Showing posts with label postpartum haemorrhage (PPH). Show all posts
Showing posts with label postpartum haemorrhage (PPH). Show all posts

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