Breast crawl is one of the baby mother bonding techniques where baby is placed on abdomen of mother immediately after birth and observing for the movement towards breast of the mother ultimately results in breast feeding. Usually, within 12 to 44 minutes after placing the baby on abdomen, baby’s initiates movements, and within 27 to 71 minutes spontaneous suckling response will starts1. Breast crawl has both maternal and neonatal benefits. As per as mother is concerned all physiological or psychological benefits starts due to skin to skin contacts which results in release of various hormones, oxytocin being the most common. The hormone oxytocin helps in lots of physiological changes such as improving the process of involution of uterus, reducing the hemorrhage, reducing the duration of third stage of labor and ultimately improving the sense of wellbeing in mother and baby2. Apart from these the most important objectives of breast crawl is early initiation of breast feeding.

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