Luding-Hoe and Swinth (1996), have suggested that early STS promotes neurobehavioral development and organization which correlates with improved breastfeeding behavior. The results of a recent meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials published by the Cochrane Collaboration suggest that early STS contact has a positive effect on the success of the firth breastfeeding, as well as breastfeeding status on postpartum day 3, at 1 to 4 months, and total breastfeeding duration. Additional benefits associated with early STS include infant temperature stabilization, less infant crying, higher infant blood glucose, and increased maternal satisfaction and confidence. Although this guality improvement project focus on healthy infants after cesarean birth, there is evidence that STS care benefits fragile, low-birthweigh infants. Cardiorespiratory stability and temperature outcomes among low-birthweight infants who experienced STS contact for the first 6 hours after birth compared to the infants placed in a servocontrolled incubator. Even though temperature stabilization is a key benefit of STS, in practice mothers and infants are ofter separated from each other because of the perceived need to put the infant under a warmer, and as a result are unable to initiate breastfeeding.