Delaying newborn baths increases rates of breastfeeding
Monday, January 21, 2019 - 09:50
in Health & Medicine
While it has been standard practice for decades to whisk newborns off to a bath within the first few hours of their birth, a new Cleveland Clinic study found that waiting to bathe a healthy newborn 12 or more hours after birth increased the rate of breastfeeding exclusivity during the newborn hospital stay. The paper […]