Why is it important for a child to contact his parents right after birth?

Why is it important for a child to contact his parents right after birth?

The temperature around the baby in the womb, in the amniotic fluid, is 37 ° C. Indoor air contact, the temperature of which rarely exceeds 25 ° C, is a real test for newborn baby's thermoreceptors. It is necessary to take into account the fact that all systems of the body of the newborn are still imperfect, they will develop over the next few years.

Having experienced a shock from sudden cold, the body launches a cascade of biochemical reactions. Breaking down at first is not particularly large glucose reserves, this way child receives such a necessary heat. But why we need deprive the baby of carbohydrate reserves when you can help him in the easiest way - to put the baby on mother's or dad's belly. The body temperature reaches the same 36-37 ° C, which makes the newborn to snuggle the parents more tightly