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 Volume 9, Issue 6 (June 2022), Pages: 103-109

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 Review Paper

 Skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding: A scoping review

 Author(s): Hanin Alhaddad 1, Salmah Alghamdi 2, *

 Affiliation(s):

 1Nursing Education Department, East Jeddah General Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
 2Maternity and Childhood Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4064-2724

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.06.014

 Abstract:

Skin-to-skin contact (SSC) has been identified as a significant factor in the initiation of proper breastfeeding. The early hours of breastfeeding are essential for establishing adequate breastfeeding in the future. Skin-to-skin contact between the mother and the infant creates a mutual bond that enhances optimum milk production. However, certain factors, such as the environment and separating the baby from the mother for vitamin injections and infant evaluation, influence exclusive breastfeeding. A search on electronic databases was conducted to obtain literature on the topic. The search on CINAHL, PsychInfo, and PubMed generated different studies that underwent a screening process. Thirteen studies were selected after conducting a thorough exclusion exercise. Studies revealed that outcomes indicate that skin-to-skin contact improves the rate of breastfeeding. Further studies are needed to overcome factors that may impede the practice of SSC. 

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Breastfeeding, Skin-to-skin contact, Initiation, Systematic review, Randomized controlled trials

 Article History: Received 5 January 2022, Received in revised form 7 April 2022, Accepted 8 April 2022

 Acknowledgment 

No Acknowledgment.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Alhaddad H and Alghamdi S (2022). Skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding: A scoping review. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(6): 103-109

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