Sentences with phrase «skin against the mother»

Scientists have demonstrated that if a tiny premature baby is held skin to skin against his mother's chest, that will stabilize his breathing and heart rate, and he will even grow better.

The baby should be wiped from head to toe with a dry cloth and placed skin - to - skin against the mother.

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Those specific steps were breastfeeding within the hour after delivery, rooming in, giving the newborn no other food or drink and immediately putting the baby against its mother's skin.

# 6: Protects Against The Effects of Separation Babies are born ready to interact with their mothers — a newborn baby who has not been exposed to excessive medication will be very alert and gaze intently into their mother's face, recognizing her smell, sound of her voice and the touch of her skin.

The mother's elective surgery put up against young Annie's struggles with weight and race (in the film's only mawkish moment, the child wishes she could rip her skin off), compared to Elizabeth's shockingly vulnerable scene in which she asks an actor lover (Dermot Mulroney) to critique her naked body and contrasted with Michelle's compensatory indiscretion with a boy less than half her age (the exceptional Jake Gyllenhaal).

In God Help the Child, the protagonist, Bride, despite her mother's prejudice against her skin tone, produces her own cosmetic line.