The Effects of Skin-to-Skin Contact on Temperature and Breastfeeding Successfulness in Full-Term Newborns after Cesarean Delivery

Table 2

Comparison of the means and standard deviations related to the general situations of the mothers and infants in the skin-to-skin contact and routine care groups.

Variable	Group
	Skin-to-skin contact	Routine care
Preoperative maternal temperature	36.44 ± 0.38	36.42 ± 0.48	0.13	0.9
Postoperative maternal temperature	36.48 ± 0.37	36.4 ± 0.41	0.98	0.32
Infant’s temperature in the operating room	36.2 ± 0.62	36 ± 0.58	0.83	0.4
Infant’s temperature on arrival at the nursery unit	36.7 ± 0.4	36.8 ± 0.5	−1.6	0.11
Temperature of the operating room	28 ± 1.2	28 ± 1.52	0.3	0.75
Temperature of the nursery unit	28.1 ± 0.96	28 ± 0.61	0.035	0.97
Temperature of the mother’s room	29.9 ± 0.64	29.7 ± 1.63	0.8	0.42