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Skin to skin contact by delivery method from the Maternity Services Data Set

A count of women with skin-to-skin contact with their baby within one hour of birth at or after 37 weeks, broken down by delivery method grouping, England, January-December 2023 and January-December 2024.
Date published:
17 March 2025

Request received

A request for the number of women with skin to skin contact with their baby within one hour of birth, for babies born at or after 37 weeks, broken down by delivery method from the Maternity Services Dataset for 2023 and 2024.

Our response

In response to this request we provided a count of women with skin-to-skin contact with their baby within one hour of birth at or after 37 weeks, broken down by delivery method grouping, England, January-December 2023 and January-December 2024.

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Last edited: 17 March 2025 4:01 pm