ArticleMaternal and child health journal2023
Skin-to-Skin Contact in the Third Stage of Labor and Postpartum Hemorrhage Prevention: A Scoping Review.
Article in Maternal and child health journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06781307 (Department of Nurse-Midwifery and Women Health Graduate Institute of Nurse-Nurse-Midwifery), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Department of Nurse-Midwifery and Women Health Graduate Institute of Nurse-Nurse-Midwifery
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Immediate or early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Skin-to-skin contact for the prevention of neonatal hypoglycaemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Pooled it
- Facilitators and challenges in the practice of skin-to-skin contact after birth: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2026Article
- The Swedish national guideline on immediate and uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact and mother-newborn couplet care.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Immediate skin-to-skin contact and postpartum hemorrhagic morbidity.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2025Article
- Experience of Labour and Childbirth in a Sample of Portuguese Women: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Development of a Predictive Model for Skin-to-Skin Contact Immediately after Birth: A Cross-Sectional Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Skin-to-Skin Contact and Breastfeeding After Planned Cesarean Birth Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine · 2024Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
introductionLiterature supports numerous benefits of skin-to-skin contact for neonatal adaptation to extrauterine life and bonding/attachment, but few studies explore the effects of skin-to-skin contact on maternal outcomes. This review aims to map the evidence on skin-to-skin contact in the third stage of labor for postpartum hemorrhage prevention.
methodsScoping review, which covered stages recommended by the Institute Joanna Briggs, including studies from the PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, LILACS, Web of Science, and Scopus databases, using the descriptors "Postpartum hemorrhage", "Labor stages, third", "Prevention" and "Kangaroo care/Skin-to-skin".
results100 publications on the subject found, 13 articles met the inclusion criteria, with 10,169 dyads were assessed in all studies. Publications from 2008 to 2021 were mostly written in English and designed as a randomized controlled trial. Skin-to-skin contact was effective and significant in: reducing the duration of the third stage of labor; placenta delivery; uterine contractility and physiological involution; absence of atony, decreasing blood loss with lower rates of erythrocyte and hemoglobin drop; reducing the need for synthetic oxytocin and/or ergometrine to control bleeding; and reducing changing pads per period and length of stay. DISCUSSION: Skin-to-skin contact was considered an effective, low-cost, and safe strategy, with positive effects already established in the literature for infants and extremely favorable results in postpartum hemorrhage prevention cases, being highly recommended in assistance for the dyad. Open Science Framework Registry ( https://osf.io/n3685 ).
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