Effect of Skin-to-Skin Contact between Mothers and Newborns at Birth on Temperature, Oxygen Saturation, and Initiation of Breast Feeding | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 126, Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 1831-1842 PDF (402.47 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.264766 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Nagat Farouk Abolwafa1; Heba Boshra Shehata2; Howayda Mohammed Ali3 | ||
| 1Assistant Professor of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Minia Universities, Egypt | ||
| 2Lecturer of Pediatric Nursing, South Valley University, Egypt | ||
| 3Lecturer of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Minia Universities, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Immediately after birth, the newborn should be placed in Skin-to-Skin Contact (SSC) with their mothers for at least an hour, and mothers should be assisted to initiate breastfeeding their newborns within the first half-hour. Objective is to explore the effect of skin-to skin contact between mothers and newborns at birth on temperature, oxygen saturation, and initiation of breast feeding. Method: A quasi-experimental design was utilized on the current study. Sample and setting: 300 mothers and their newborns were included as purposive sample in the delivery room at Minia University Hospital for Obstetrics and Pediatrics and Minia General Hospital. They divided randomly into two groups 150 for skin-to-skin contact (the study group) and 150 for the routine care (the control group). Tools: Data collection requires only one tool including four parts formed up a structured interview questionnaire: Part (1), assessed the personal and obstetric data of the mothers' Part (2) assessed the newborns data. Part (3) assessed the newborns auxiliary temperature, oxygen saturation, time of initiating breast feeding and duration of the first breast fed lastly Part (4) assessed the LATCH breastfeeding assessment tool.Results: There was increase in axillary temperature stability, increase oxygen saturation SO2 more than 90% among newborns after birth, decreasing mean time to initiate breast feeding and increasing mean duration of the first breast fed among the skin-to-skin contact group than the routine care group. Conclusion: early skin-to-skin contact immediately after newborns birth led to auxiliary temperature stabilization, increase oxygen saturation more than 90%, early successful initiation of breast feeding and increasing the duration of the first breastfed.Recommendations: Continuous educational and training program concerning benefits and practice of SSC among health personnel is necessary. All stable newborns born at term via normal delivery should practice skin-to-skin contact soon after birth for at least the first primary hours of life with continual observation of mothers and newborns during early SSC. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Initiation of Breast Feeding; Mothers; Newborn; Oxygen Saturation; Skin to Skin Contact; Temperature | ||
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