Skin-to-skin contact between the mother and baby during the first hour after birth has significant benefits for mother, newborn, and breastfeeding. However, optimal implementation is highly variable. That is why experts from around the world came together to create a universal guideline to help create consistency in research pertaining to skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding.

One study, published earlier this year by Healthy Children Project faculty and colleagues earlier this year, aimed to determine if the 2023 guideline could be fully implemented and sustained in a regional teaching and referral hospital in Uganda, and whether this resulted in an increase of breastfeeding initiation in the first hour after birth.

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, we are excited to announce that Health Education Associates has made this paper available as an online module, and it is free through August 8! The module can be completed to earn 1.5 contact hours.

Happy World Breastfeeding Week!