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Concerns: There are sometimes concerns that infants will get cold.
Actually when positioned correctly, even very low birth weight babies are able to maintain their temperature while skin to skin.
Skin to Skin Care is encouraged for all deliveries the Knox Community Hospital Birthing Center. Whatever nutrition you have chosen for your baby, Skin to Skin Care will be the best choice of first choices you make as parents. Have your baby placed upright on mother’s bare chest for that first hour or two after birth or anytime in the first months of life.