What is it about?
Direct contact and breastfeeding is protective against COVID infection. The medical community had known about this for quite some time, for some reason, this is forgotten when faced with actual infection. The global evidence appears to support the long held knowledge that mother and infant direct contact helps prevent newborn infection.
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Why is it important?
This information reenforces the value of keeping the mother and infant together after birth to promote breastfeeding and infant health.
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This page is a summary of: COVID-19 Illness: Mother–Baby Separation, Viruses, and Breastfeeding, Clinical Lactation, December 2020, Springer Publishing Company,
DOI: 10.1891/clinlact-d-20-00008.
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