Delivery room skin-to-skin contact for preterm neonates: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Abstract Background Immediate skin-to-skin contact (SSC) is the biological norm for newborns; however, preterm infants are routinely separated from their mothers at birth because of fears of thermal and clinical instability. This practice prioritizes technical stabilization and potentially deprives vulnerable neonates...
Purbasha Mishra, Shrutiprajna Kar, Rajendra Prasad Anne
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