Breastfeeding Rates Increase When Newborn Baths Delayed
January 21, 2019
January 21, 2019
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 21 -- The Cleveland Clinic issued the following news release:
While it has been standard practice for decades to whisk newborns off to a bath within the first few hours of their birth, a new Cleveland Clinic study found that waiting to bathe a healthy newborn 12 or more hours after birth increased the rate of breastfeeding exclusivity during the newborn hospital stay.
The paper was published Jan. 21 in the Journal for Obstetrics, Gynecologic, and N . . .
While it has been standard practice for decades to whisk newborns off to a bath within the first few hours of their birth, a new Cleveland Clinic study found that waiting to bathe a healthy newborn 12 or more hours after birth increased the rate of breastfeeding exclusivity during the newborn hospital stay.
The paper was published Jan. 21 in the Journal for Obstetrics, Gynecologic, and N . . .