Baby Friendly facilities enable mothers and their infants to remain together and to practice rooming-in 24 hours a day. Routine procedures can take place both during skin-to-skin holding and breastfeeding — a proven way to reduce stress and pain for newborns! Keeping mothers and babies together changes routine procedures from stressful to simple. Listen to the words of one care provider in a hospital implementing the Ten Steps: “Before we allowed mothers to do skin-to-skin, we had to wait for a nurse to come and hold the baby still and keep the soother in their mouth and sometimes use glucose feed, while another lab tech held the newborn's foot still. Then we would be able to draw our blood sample. Now with skin-to-skin holding, blood draws are less stressful for babies, their parents, and even for us as lab technicians! The whole procedure is better for everyone.” ~ a Health care provider
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