A quality improvement project focused on women's perceptions of skin-to-skin contact after cesarean birth.

A quality improvement (QI) project was designed to identify women's perceptions of the benefits of skin-to-skin contact with newborns immediately following cesarean birth. Women reported positive experiences associated with skin-to-skin contact with their newborns. A major theme that emerged was that women who had cesarean birth felt that this QI project resulted in a birthing experience comparable to that of mothers who had vaginal deliveries.