The benefits of parental touch become clear at birth. One review of 52 studies involving over 4,000 newborns found that touch ...

In a study done with babies after cesarean delivery, babies held skin to skin by their fathers had higher temperature and glucose levels compared to those of babies left alone under warmers.

All mammals have a set sequence of behaviors at birth – all with a single purpose – to breastfeed. Baby mammals are born to breastfeed! Surprisingly, it is the newborn that initiates ...

UNICEF and the NHS recommend skin-to-skin contact between a parent and newborn. This involves placing a newborn on a parent’s bare chest, both of them covered in a warm blanket, for at least an hour ...

The benefits of parental touch become clear at birth. One review of 52 studies involving over 4,000 newborns found that touch interventions – such as skin-to-skin contact and baby massage ...

After pushing for over an hour, my doctor gave me the option of a C-section after he discovered ... few days were spent with more awe and wonder, skin-to-skin contact, learning to breastfeed ...

Birth tissue donation is part of a growing statewide program with thousands of participants run through Tennessee Donor Services.

Birth is unpredictable. It is full of gore, fluids, wetness and screams. It flirts with death. Even today, with modern ...

A mum was ‘clinically dead’ for 14 minutes before waking up to discover she had given birth to a baby girl. Natasha Sokunbi ...