early skin to skin care and breastfeeding
immediate uninterrupted skin to skin care for a minimum of an hour is among the most effective strategies in mater settings to promote exclusive breastfeeding. breastfeeding reflexes ''awaken'' during skin to skin care. newborns exhibit a species specific sequence of nine behaviors that result in finding and attaching to their mother's breast. the new born's instinctive behavior while skin to skin enhanced by high levels of oxytocin at birth may help explain why researchers have found a relationship between early skin to skin care were more likely to exclusively breastfeed at hospital discharge to be exclusively breastfed after discharge and to breastfeed for longer duration