Uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact significantly affects your baby's adaptation as he or she transitions from the womb to the new life process. Nowadays, in our country, routine examination, measurements and vaccinations are commonly performed on newborns in the first hour. The contact between mother and baby in the first hour, breastfeeding is very important for mother-baby-father, that is, family bonding. These routine procedures can also be done after an hour. Unless the mother or baby requires medical support, hospital protocols should support uninterrupted canopy contact for both vaginal and cesarean births
Once born, babies are placed immediately on the mother's womb or chest. A warm blanket should be placed on the mother and baby to prevent them from getting cold. A warm environment slows down the release of adrenaline in the mother and causes the release of oxytocin and prolactin hormones, which are important for secure attachment and breastfeeding. The most important needs of the mother immediately after birth are a warm, quiet and calm environment. So, what are the benefits of uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact for the first hour?
Feeding begins immediately within the first hour of skin-to-skin contact. Immediate feeding also ensures secure mother-baby bonding. It also helps the baby's partner, which we call the placenta, separate easily and quickly, which reduces postpartum bleeding. Even if you place the baby on the mother's belly during labor or in the absence of any medication at the time of birth, the baby finds its mother's nipple with instinctive movements and starts sucking it immediately, just like every newborn mammal baby.
In the first hour after birth, skin-to-skin contact is important for regulating the baby's body temperature and breathing. Since newborns do not have the same subcutaneous fat tissue levels as older children and adults, they may not be able to quickly adapt to body temperature. Babies gain body temperature control within the nine-month period. If babies lose too much heat, they have to use more energy and oxygen to regain temperature control.
Skin-to-skin contact also reduces the risk of hypoglycemia, that is, the risk of low blood sugar. Newborn babies obtain blood sugar from energy stores in the body until they can breastfeed well. T Entente contact facilitates the transformation from these energy stores.
Waiting while the umbilical cord is vibrating ensures that oxygen goes to the baby from the placenta until the baby breathes with its lungs. . Being in skin-to-skin contact with their mothers means that the baby's breathing is stabilized, the cord is intact, which means more red blood cells pass to the baby and the risk of iron deficiency anemia decreases.
Contact with the awning after birth helps the mother and baby get to know each other and makes the baby feel safe and comfortable. It is important for the mother to bond with her baby and develop her own self-confidence in caring for her baby. During pregnancy, the number of oxytocin receptors in a woman's brain begins to increase. In other words, the mother's sensitivity to the oxytocin hormone increases with birth. Oxytocin hormone is the love hormone that enables a person to develop maternal behaviors. More oxytonin hormone is produced by skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding in the early period. It has been shown that mothers who make skin-to-skin contact with their babies in the early period develop more behaviors such as kissing, bonding and speaking positively to their babies.
Skin-to-skin contact also successfully affects the baby's initiation and duration of sucking. The World Health Organization emphasizes the quality of breastfeeding for the first six months to ensure optimal growth, development and health outcomes. Creating the right conditions for the initiation of breastfeeding will help the mother breastfeed her baby for long periods of time. This will significantly reduce breastfeeding problems and ensure long-term breastfeeding.
Babies are born ready to communicate with their mothers. If the newborn has not experienced excessive drug exposure during labor, he/she is born awake, with his eyes open, and looks at his mother's face, feeling her voice, smell and touch of her skin. The baby who is separated from his mother feels his life is threatened. Babies are born with the primitive mammalian instinct of feeling safe at their mother's breast. Babies separated from their mothers They get stressed by crying loudly and try to attract their mother's attention. If they do not unite with their mother
after loud crying, then they try to stabilize their energy and temperature by becoming quiet.
Babies are born from a sterile environment within the mother's womb into a non-sterile world. The baby's first encounter with bacteria occurs during vaginal birth. This actually stimulates babies' immune cells to recognize 'good' and 'bad' bacteria. This is the first stage in stimulating babies' immune systems. Another way the baby meets bacteria is skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding. This is a great opportunity, especially for babies born by cesarean section.
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