
Immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth improves survival of pre-term babies26.5.2021 21:00:00 CEST | Karolinska Institutet - English | Press Release
Continuous skin-to-skin contact starting immediately after delivery even before the baby has been stabilised can reduce mortality by 25 per cent in infants with a very low birth weight. This according to a study in low- and middle-income countries coordinated by the WHO on the initiative of researchers at Karolinska Institutet published in The New England Journal of Medicine.