Trends in Maternity Care Practice Skin-to-Skin Contact Indicators: United States, 2007-2015

Breastfeeding Medicine : the Official Journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
Ellen O BoundyHeather C Hamner

Abstract

Mother-infant skin-to-skin contact (SSC) immediately after birth helps transition infants to the post-uterine environment and increases the likelihood of breastfeeding initiation and duration. This study examines trends in U.S. maternity practices related to SSC, and variations by facility demographics. Data were from the Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) surveys (2007-2015), a biennial assessment of all U.S. maternity facilities. Facilities reported how often patients were encouraged to practice mother-infant SSC for ≥30 minutes within 1 hour of uncomplicated vaginal birth and 2 hours of uncomplicated cesarean birth, and how often routine infant procedures are performed while in SSC. We calculated the percentage of maternity facilities reporting these indicators for ≥90% of patients across the United States for each survey year. Estimates by facility characteristics (size, type, and state) were calculated for 2015 only. The percentage of facilities reporting "Most (≥90%)" women, which were encouraged to practice early SSC, increased from 2007 to 2015 following both vaginal (40.4% to 83.0%) and cesarean (29.3% to 69.9%) births. The percentage of facilities reporting routine infant procedures were performe...Continue Reading

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Feb 27, 2019·Breastfeeding Medicine : the Official Journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine·Chloe M BarreraCria G Perrine
Nov 6, 2020·Maternal & Child Nutrition·Jennifer M NelsonCria G Perrine
Jan 21, 2021·Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing : JOGNN·Natalie M Thompson, Angela B Maeder

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