Experiencia de las madres durante el contacto piel a piel al nacimiento

Abstract

Introduction and objective

Mothers enjoy the experience of skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth, and this raises the possibility that such contact can help these mothers feel more secure with their babies.

Objective

To describe the experience of mothers during skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth by normal delivery and caesarean section.

Material and methods

A cross-sectional, descriptive, observational, and prospective study was carried out in the Toco-Surgical Unit of the National Institute of Perinatology, in Mexico City, in order to describe the experience of mothers during skin-to-skin contact at birth in healthy term newborns, during the period from 1 September 2015 to 31 July 2016. The mothers were asked to describe their experience during skin-to-skin contact at birth. The results were analysed using Wizard Pro Version 1.9.7.

Results

Interviews were carried out over an 11-month period on 779 mothers that experienced skin-to-skin contact at birth. This was categorised by level of satisfaction as, very satisfactory, satisfactory, and not very satisfactory, with 570 cases (73.2%) being found as very satisfactory, 201 (25.8%) cases as satisfactory, and 8 cases (3%) as not very satisfactory. There was no statistically significant difference (P = .212) as regards the level of satisfaction and the birth route; thus it may be inferred that the level of satisfaction of the mother is independent of the birth route.

Conclusions

The placing of the newborn on the mother's breast after birth is a happy and very satisfying experience for the vast majority of mothers.