Journal Skin to Skin and Bf
Content
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY
School of Nursing
BAGUIO CITY, PHILIPPINES
RESEARCH TITLE:
“Healthy Birth Practice #6: Keep Mother
and Baby Together— It’s Best for
Mother, Baby, and Breastfeeding”
-Jeannette T. Crenshaw, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, IBCLC, FAAN,
LCCE, FACCE
Submitted by:
LARA, Kit B.
BSN II-A5
Submitted to:
Ma’am Genevive Claire B. Antonio RN, MN
(Clinical Instructor)
“Healthy Birth Practice #6: Keep Mother and Baby Together—
It’s Best for Mother, Baby, and Breastfeeding”
- Jeannette T. Crenshaw, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, IBCLC, FAAN, LCCE, FACCE
This research journal studies were all about keeping mothers and baby together after birth. The aim of
this article is to provide an updated review of the literature on the importance of no separation in mother and
baby. Mothers and babies have a physiologic need to be together at the moment of birth and during the hours
and days that follow. An essential practice for safe and healthy birth is to keep mothers and babies together
and ensure unlimited opportunities for skin-to-skin care and breastfeeding to be together during the moments,
hours, and days following birth, significantly improves maternal and newborn outcomes. The researchers
examined mothers in a hospital that observed in the following factors physical and psychological effects on
mothers and baby, breastfeeding pattern, and separation and no separation of mother and baby. They found
out that at the moment of birth, newborns have a heightened, protective response to tactile, odor, and thermal
cues. When the newborn is placed skin-to-skin with the mother, this heightened response stimulates behaviors
that help to meet the newborn’s basic biological needs, activates neuroprotective mechanisms, and enables
early neurobehavioral self-regulation. They found out Newborns' Nine Instinctive Behaviors During Skin-to-Skin
Care After Birth these are Birth cry, relaxation, awakening, activity, rest, crawling, familiarization, suckling and
sleep, Newborns who did not have skin-to skin care, cried most; and babies who are skin to skin contact had
enhanced cardio respiratory stability, including oxygen saturation levels; more stable blood glucose levels; and,
enhanced thermal regulation.
Evidence based- practice protocol on World Health Organization recommended that all healthy mothers
and babies, regardless of feeding preference and method of birth, have uninterrupted skin-to skin care
beginning immediately after birth for at least an hour, and until after the first feeding, for breastfeeding women.
All routine procedures such as maternal and newborn assessments can take place during skin-to-skin care or
can be delayed until after the sensitive period immediately after birth.
The other importance mother and child share if they are not routinely separated ate the risk of neonatal
hypothermia is reduced by skin-to-skin care as the maternal breast quickly adjusts in temperature to regulate
her newborn’s temperature, promoting thermoregulation. Immediate skin-toskin care enables colonization of
the newborn to maternal flora (vs. hospital flora) to protect against infection and promotes breastfeeding.
They conclude that the keeping mothers and baby together after birth need most each other, with
unlimited opportunities for skin to- skin care and breastfeeding improve the short- and longterm health
outcomes for mothers and babies. Preventing separation except for compelling medical indications is an
essential safe and healthy birth practice.
I choose this journal study because I want to advised and encourage my patient on essential practice
for safe and healthy birth to keep with her baby together and ensure unlimited opportunities for skin-to skin
care and breastfeeding have a greater impact on the growth and development of the baby.
INSIGHT
I learned in this article that the importance of keeping mothers and baby had a greater effect on the
physical and psychological aspects of both mother and baby and short- and long-term health outcomes and
breastfeeding success.
IMPLICATION TO NURSING PRACTICE
This research journal is relevance to nursing practice because we are advising our patient on
immediate skin to skin contact after birth and keep mother and baby together for a healthy outcomes and
exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months that is among the most significant strategies to improve infant and child health and
reduce childhood illness and mortality.
Reference:
Crenshaw, J. T. (2014). Healthy Birth Practice #6: Keep Mother and Baby
Together—It’s Best for Mother, Baby, and Breastfeeding. Journal Of
Perinatal Education, 23(4), 211-217 7p. doi:10.1891/1058-1243.23.4.211.
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School of Nursing
BAGUIO CITY, PHILIPPINES
RESEARCH TITLE:
“Healthy Birth Practice #6: Keep Mother
and Baby Together— It’s Best for
Mother, Baby, and Breastfeeding”
-Jeannette T. Crenshaw, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, IBCLC, FAAN,
LCCE, FACCE
Submitted by:
LARA, Kit B.
BSN II-A5
Submitted to:
Ma’am Genevive Claire B. Antonio RN, MN
(Clinical Instructor)
“Healthy Birth Practice #6: Keep Mother and Baby Together—
It’s Best for Mother, Baby, and Breastfeeding”
- Jeannette T. Crenshaw, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, IBCLC, FAAN, LCCE, FACCE
This research journal studies were all about keeping mothers and baby together after birth. The aim of
this article is to provide an updated review of the literature on the importance of no separation in mother and
baby. Mothers and babies have a physiologic need to be together at the moment of birth and during the hours
and days that follow. An essential practice for safe and healthy birth is to keep mothers and babies together
and ensure unlimited opportunities for skin-to-skin care and breastfeeding to be together during the moments,
hours, and days following birth, significantly improves maternal and newborn outcomes. The researchers
examined mothers in a hospital that observed in the following factors physical and psychological effects on
mothers and baby, breastfeeding pattern, and separation and no separation of mother and baby. They found
out that at the moment of birth, newborns have a heightened, protective response to tactile, odor, and thermal
cues. When the newborn is placed skin-to-skin with the mother, this heightened response stimulates behaviors
that help to meet the newborn’s basic biological needs, activates neuroprotective mechanisms, and enables
early neurobehavioral self-regulation. They found out Newborns' Nine Instinctive Behaviors During Skin-to-Skin
Care After Birth these are Birth cry, relaxation, awakening, activity, rest, crawling, familiarization, suckling and
sleep, Newborns who did not have skin-to skin care, cried most; and babies who are skin to skin contact had
enhanced cardio respiratory stability, including oxygen saturation levels; more stable blood glucose levels; and,
enhanced thermal regulation.
Evidence based- practice protocol on World Health Organization recommended that all healthy mothers
and babies, regardless of feeding preference and method of birth, have uninterrupted skin-to skin care
beginning immediately after birth for at least an hour, and until after the first feeding, for breastfeeding women.
All routine procedures such as maternal and newborn assessments can take place during skin-to-skin care or
can be delayed until after the sensitive period immediately after birth.
The other importance mother and child share if they are not routinely separated ate the risk of neonatal
hypothermia is reduced by skin-to-skin care as the maternal breast quickly adjusts in temperature to regulate
her newborn’s temperature, promoting thermoregulation. Immediate skin-toskin care enables colonization of
the newborn to maternal flora (vs. hospital flora) to protect against infection and promotes breastfeeding.
They conclude that the keeping mothers and baby together after birth need most each other, with
unlimited opportunities for skin to- skin care and breastfeeding improve the short- and longterm health
outcomes for mothers and babies. Preventing separation except for compelling medical indications is an
essential safe and healthy birth practice.
I choose this journal study because I want to advised and encourage my patient on essential practice
for safe and healthy birth to keep with her baby together and ensure unlimited opportunities for skin-to skin
care and breastfeeding have a greater impact on the growth and development of the baby.
INSIGHT
I learned in this article that the importance of keeping mothers and baby had a greater effect on the
physical and psychological aspects of both mother and baby and short- and long-term health outcomes and
breastfeeding success.
IMPLICATION TO NURSING PRACTICE
This research journal is relevance to nursing practice because we are advising our patient on
immediate skin to skin contact after birth and keep mother and baby together for a healthy outcomes and
exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months that is among the most significant strategies to improve infant and child health and
reduce childhood illness and mortality.
Reference:
Crenshaw, J. T. (2014). Healthy Birth Practice #6: Keep Mother and Baby
Together—It’s Best for Mother, Baby, and Breastfeeding. Journal Of
Perinatal Education, 23(4), 211-217 7p. doi:10.1891/1058-1243.23.4.211.
Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
direct=true&db=c8h&AN=103905777&site=eds-live
