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ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2026

The Swedish national guideline on immediate and uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact and mother-newborn couplet care.

S Klemming, Vesta Seyed Alikhani, K Breding, P Bäcke, S Elvermark, A Gustafsson, Å Hermansson, E Jonsson, N Kjellqvist, M Mattisson and 7 more

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Article in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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S Klemming *NIDCAP Trainer with the NIDCAP Federation International, Stockholm, Sweden.
Vesta Seyed AlikhaniDepartment of Neonatology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
K BredingDepartment of Obstetrics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
P BäckeDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
S ElvermarkDepartment of Anesthesiology, Division of Obstetric and Gynecologic Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
A GustafssonDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Å HermanssonDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden.
E JonssonDepartment of Women's Health, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
N KjellqvistDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Kalmar Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden.
M MattissonDepartment of Neonatology, Växjö Hospital, Växjö, Sweden.
M NelanderDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
M-C NilssonDepartment of Obsterics and Gynecology, Ystad Hospital, Ystad, Sweden.
A NyholmDepartment of Ambulance Services, Region Västerbotten, Umeå, Sweden.
S LilliesköldDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Y Thernström BlomqvistDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
E WilsonDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
S Arwehed *Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

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Abstract

Immediate and continuous skin-to-skin contact between a mother and her newborn is associated with numerous health benefits. Benefits for infants includes improved thermoregulation, stabilization of heart rate and respiration. Benefits for mothers include reduced maternal postpartum bleeding and improved maternal blood pressure regulation. Benefits for both include reduced stress, earlier initiation of breastfeeding, and enhanced mother-infant bonding. There is a need to scale-up the clinical implementation of skin-to-skin contact for all newborns across care settings. In particular, current practices should be reconsidered for infants born preterm, with low birth-weight, requiring specialized medical interventions, and after instrumental births/caesarean sections. This also requires reorganization of maternal and newborn care. As emphasized by the World Health Organization in its implementation strategy for scaling up kangaroo mother care (2023), the mother-newborn dyad should be regarded as an

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infant healthinnovative therapiesmaternal healthmaternal-newborn caremother-newborn couplet careneonatal carenon-pharmacological interventionspreterm and low birth-weight infants

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