Holding your baby, skin-to-skin, on your chest following the first hours after birth will really help you and baby calm, bond and recover from the birth. Baby is warmer and calmer. Baby can hear your heartbeat. Baby’s heart and breathing rates normalise more quickly.
Just after the birth, your midwife will dry your baby and place them on your tummy for skin-to-skin contact to happen. Skin-to-skin contact. Skin-to-skin is a lovely way to say hello and to start to get to know each other.
Talk to your baby as well – your voice will be familiar and that will reassure them. Being close to each other like this causes your body to release oxytocin which makes you and your baby calm and relaxed.Newborns can only focus about eight to 12 inches from their face, and they see only black, white and gray. As early as the first week, your baby begins to respond to movement and begins to focus on your face. Soon your baby will smile when you come close.
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