By the time you finish reading this article, a newborn infant will have died somewhere in the Western Pacific Region. This death, like many others, might have easily been prevented, and at minimal cost, through a package of simple, low-cost interventions starting with the first embrace - the simple act of ensuring skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby immediately after birth. It sounds almost too good to be true. But there is compelling evidence that shows, a mother's first embrace, the sustained skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby straight after...
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