Effect of Early Post-Cesarean Skin-To-Skin Contact on the Psychological Status and the Success of Exclusive Breastfeeding

Abstract

Early Initiation of Breastfeeding is an important step in preventing infant death in the early days of life through breastfeeding in the first two hours of a baby's life. Breastfeeding rates in women with caesarean sections are lower than mothers who have vaginal deliveries. In increasing the success of breastfeeding, skin-to-skin contact can be applied after the birth of the baby and is highly recommended for mothers and babies as a measure to prevent hypothermia, reduce crying time, provide bounding, cardiorespiratory stability for babies, reduce anxiety during the postpartum period, and the success of early initiation of breastfeeding. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of early post-cesarean skin-to-skin contact on the psychological status of the mother and the success of exclusive breastfeeding. This research method uses a quasi-experimental design with one-group pretest-posttest. The sample of this study was 30 mothers who gave birth by caesarean section. The data analysis used was the t test to see the significance value in the one group pretest-posttest design. In this study, the p-value was <0.05, so that skin-to-skin contact can increase the bond between mother and baby and affect the psychological status of the mother and the success of exclusive breastfeeding.