October 21, 2025 in Latest Updates, Projects

Strong Evidence Supports Skin-to-Skin Contact After Birth as Standard Care: Findings from the 2025 Cochrane Review

Immediate skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their mothers offers a better start in life, improving…
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January 7, 2025 in Projects

LAT Proves Reliable and Easy to Learn in Psychometric-Based Testing

A study published in Nursing Reports shows that the Lactation Assessment Tool (LAT) provides a…
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February 28, 2024 in Latest Updates, Projects

Healthy Children Project Works with Team in Uganda to Facilitate Skin-to-Skin in the First Hour

  Healthy Children Project research team members Karin Cadwell, Kajsa Brimdyr, Anna Blair, Melissa Reyes…
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May 24, 2023 in Latest Updates, Projects

New Skin-to-Skin Guideline Published by HCP Faculty and Colleagues

"The World Health Organization guideline development process reached the conclusion immediate, continuous, uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact…
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January 3, 2020 in Projects

WBTi (World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative) Report

The WBTi report assesses the status of and creates benchmarks on the progress of implementation…
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December 4, 2019 in Projects

Lactation Counselor Training Program

Healthy Children Project's Center for Breastfeeding provides evidence-based training for more than 4,000 healthcare and…
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November 18, 2019 in Projects

PRECESS Methodology

Changing practice in a hospital setting can be difficult – fraught with a list of…
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October 28, 2019 in Projects

New Insight into Skin-to-Skin Contact

Kristin Svensson, Karin Cadwell, Ann-Marie Widström, Eva Nissen, and Kajsa Brimdyr are the authors of…
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April 30, 2019 in Projects

HCP Collaborates with Egyptian Colleague on 1,000-Day Campaign

Healthy Children Project's Kajsa Brimdyr, Anna Blair, Karin Cadwell,  Barbara O'Connor, and Cindy Turner-Maffei with…
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March 20, 2018 in Projects

The Association Between Common Labor Drugs and Suckling When Skin-to-Skin During the First Hour After Birth

The work of our faculty members Karin Cadwell and Kajsa Brimdyr has and continues to…
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March 20, 2018 in Projects

Intrapartum Administration of Synthetic Oxytocin and Downstream Effects on Breastfeeding: Elucidating Physiologic Pathways

Another new open access article from our faculty members Karin Cadwell and Kajsa Brimdyr explores physiologic mechanisms…
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March 20, 2018 in Projects

Implementation Algorithm to Improve Skin-to-Skin Practice in the First Hour After Birth

An open access article from our faculty members Kajsa Brimdyr and Karin Cadwell, along with colleagues Jeni Stevens…
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March 20, 2018 in Projects

Skin-to-Skin Care in Uganda

Healthy Children Project's Kajsa Brimdyr captured new skin-to-skin footage in 2017 based on the understanding…
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