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Journal of Nurse Midwifery and Maternal Health

Volume  6, Issue 2, May-August 2020, Pages 49-56
 

Original Article

A Pilot Study Entitled "Effectiveness of Mother and Newborn Early Skin-to-Skin Contact (SSC) on Duration of Delivery of Placenta and First Breastfeeding"

Minakshi Patidar, Sapna Patel, Anjali Tiwari

1M Sc Nursing Student, 2,Assistant Professor, 3Assistant Professor and HOD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecological Nursing, Manikaka Topawala institute of Nursing, Anand, Gujarat 388421, India.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/jnmmh.2454.7506.6220.6

Abstract

The close dermal contact between labouring woman and her newborn baby is a part of baby rising that may simpler and free from complication to a few, however its viewed as unique practice to mothers. This
close contact expands the level of oxytocin in the mother’s blood. There are some investigation indicated that this contact diminishes length of 3rd phase of labour and start of bosom breastfeeding. Therefore to
evaluate the effect of mother and newborn early SSC on duration of delivery of placenta and first breast feeding and to discover the association between duration of delivery of placenta and first breastfeeding with socio-demographic and obstetrical variables of parturient mothers, a quasi experimental research: non-equivalent post-test only control group deign was used along with total 10 samples were recruited by non probability convenient sampling technique than randomly divided in to two groups (cont. group and
Ex. group). Assessment was performed with the help of data collection tool consists of socio-demographic variable, maternal variable and stop watch for measure the duration of placental delivery and infant
breastfeeding assessment tool scale was used for assessment of first breastfeeding. Result of the studyreveals that 80% mothers in experimental group were delivered placenta within time period 10-15min
while in control group 80% were delivered placenta >15minutes with p value of 0.1364. And about first breastfeeding 80% mothers in the study group has more than 10 score it mean successful breastfeeding
compared to control group 100% mothers has less than 10 score with p value of 0.0317. This study concluded that early SSC may helps to lessen the duration of delivery of placenta and successful first breastfeeding and there is no statistically significant association found with duration of delivery of placenta and first breastfeeding with their socio -demographic and maternal variable.


Keyword: Effectiveness; Mother; Newborn; Early skin-to-skin contact; Time period of delivery of placenta; First breast feeding.
 


Corresponding Author : Minakshi Patidar.