Midwifery basics. Infant feeding: skin to skin contact after birth

Infant feeding: is the twelfth series of ‘Midwifery basics’ targeted at practising midwives. It aims to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of the work of midwives on women’s experience and encourage midwives to seek further information through a series of activities. In this second article Joyce Marshall considers skin to skin contact between mother and baby immediately after birth.