Fortalecendo o vínculo mãe-filho por meio do contato pele a pele: uma intervenção junto à equipe de enfermagem

Abstract

This intervention project aims to implement the skin to skin contact between mother and newborn during the first hour of life in a public hospital in Natal / RN. Highlights the importance and the benefits of skin to skin contact, such as the formation of bonding between mother and child through the first extra uterine contact, thermoregulation of the newborn, stabilization of cardio respiratory patterns of infant and promoting early breastfeeding, leading to the mother, tranquility, security and comfort shared with family and health care team. The nursing actions are mediators and boosters of skin to skin contact, making childbirth a unique and positive experience of intense psychological significance for the whole family. The intervention will take place in service a central focus on education and training of nursing staff, with theoretical and practical approach, evaluating their daily applicability and its subsequent execution in nursing care practice. From this, the greater involvement of nursing staff in the birth process is expected, as well as increased rates of skin to skin contact and breastfeeding in the first hour of life and the consequent increase in exclusive breastfeeding with decreased use of complementary feeding the newborn.