Comparison of short "abdominal skin to skin and Kangaroo-Mother Care's contact" on Successful breastfeeding

Background: Breast milk is the best and most complete food for children in the early months of life and the key to supplying and maintaining health. Currently, "kangaroo Mother Care" is known as a significant but long and time-consuming factor in promoting breastfeeding; will the benefits of Kangaroo Care on breastfeeding stay intact if it is done in a shorter time? For this reason, a study was conducted for comparison of short "abdominal skin to skin and Kangaroo-Mother Care's contact" on successful breastfeeding". Method: This single-blind clinical trial was accomplished on 68 qualified pregnant women, in Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran, in 2015. Women were randomly divided into two groups: experimental (Kangaroo skin contact) and control (abdominal skin contact). Questionnaire about demographic, fertility, medical, mother and infant's information, and the exclusive breastfeeding were completed for two groups after 2 months of birth. After encoding, the data were analyzed with SPSS software version 20, Mann-Whitney tests, t-test, and chi-square; 0/05>p was considered significant. Results: The results showed that nutritional behaviors and success in breastfeeding after two months from delivery in both groups were similar. Conclusion: Short-term skin to skin contact (kangaroo care) on exclusive breastfeeding has the same effect as abdominal skin to skin contact.