Skin-to-skin Contact Time and Maternal Psychology

Skin-to-skin contact is defined as placing a naked baby on the mother's bare stomach or breast for at least one hour immediately after birth. The women in this group received 5 minutes of skin-to-skin contact as a clinic routine.

Skin-to-skin contact is defined as placing a naked baby on the mother's bare stomach or breast for at least one hour immediately after birth. In line with the recommendation of the World Health Organization, 60 minutes of skin-to-skin contact was applied to the women in this group.