The ffect of early parent-infant contact on newborn body temperature.

To determine whether infants who are properly dried and wrapped can be held and warmed by parents in the delivery room without suffering a significant heat loss, temperatures of 100 infants were monitored with electronic thermometers after delivery; 50 were held by one or both parents and 50 were not held but immediately placed in a heated transporter. A two-tailed t test showed no significant differences between temperatures of the two groups.