Early skin-to-skin contact (SSC) refers to the placing
of the naked infant prone on the mother’s bare chest immediately
after birth [1] . It helps in initiating breast feeding
(BF) and in reducing infant’s stress in the first few
hours after birth [1–3] . With the rapid technological advancement
in perinatal care, the practice, however, lost its
rightful place in most modern-day obstetric units [4] . Recently,
with the inclusion of early SSC as a part of the
‘routine care’ of normal babies, there has been a renewed
interest in promoting SSC in the delivery room. Still,
there is a huge variation in implementation of this practice
in centers across the world