A pragmatic descriptive study of rewarming the newborn after the first bath.

Objectives: To evaluate two methods of rewarming newborns after the first bath: radiant rewarming and skin-to-skin maternal newborn contact.

Design: A nonrandomized clinical trial in which mothers chose the rewarming method, with 200 participants in the skin-to-skin rewarming group (experimental condition), and 200 in the radiant rewarming group (control).

Setting: A teaching hospital in the Southeast United States.