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BFI 9 Delivery room practise and infant feeding

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Looking at the benefits of skin to skin after delivery and at least until the end of the first feed.

Mind Map by clare edwards, updated more than 1 year ago

	Created by clare edwards over 7 years ago

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BFI 9 Delivery room practise and infant feeding

Benefits of skin to skin
1. Assist with growth
2. Encourages breastfeeding
  1. Rooting
  2. Milk production
3. Brain development
4. Protects baby from infection
  1. Mum transfers antibodies to baby
5. *Regulates breathing*
6. *Regulates thermal homeostasis*
7. Regulates blood sugars
8. improves oxygen saturation
9. can prevent postnatal depression
10. Increase maternal instinct
  1. Bonding
11. Increase oxytocin in um and baby
  1. Encourages uterine contractions
    1. Uterus returns to normal quicker
    2. Decrease chance of a PPH
12. Primes lactocytes
13. *maintains babies heart rate
14. reduces pain for baby
  1. reduces cortisol levels

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