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“write a 1000 word essay, using at least 3 scholarly articles and/or RNAO BPG to address the following questions: Define Skin to Skin Contact. How would you answer your patient’s question regarding whether or not skin to skin contact is important for her baby? What are the benefits for her baby, including factors that encourage the implementation of skin-to-skin contact? Identify the barriers of skin-to-skin contact, factors that decrease the likelihood of implementing skin to skin contact in the Maternal Child Setting. Identify one concept regarding breastfeeding and Skin to Skin Contact that is poorly misunderstood – how would you explain this (in laymen’s terms) to a new mother and family? What further research is required?”