INTRODUCTION

Perinatal care typically focuses on the postpartum mother and her newborn infants. Reflecting this phenomenon, most perinatal care research has focused on the mother during the pregnancy and birthing, excluding the feelings and functions of the father. The accumulate the experience necessary to realize their ideal parenting roles using adjustments, trail, error and external assistance. Postpartum father- neonate SSC engenders strong feelings in the father for his newborn, Increase the environmental stimulation, provides critical emotional support, and encourages the father to become actively involved in infant caring responsibilities Touching, massaging and hugging an infant as well as learning to respond appropriately to an infant’s crying each help new father Properly interpret changes to infant appearance and behavior, provide appropriate information, reduce parenthood discomfort and anxiety, better prepare for parenting role responsibilities; and increase infant’s confidence.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: A study to evaluate the effectiveness of skin-to-skin contact between Father and baby delivered by Lower Segmental Caesarean Section in terms of paternal and neonatal outcomes in selected hospitals of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

OBJECTIVES:

u Evaluate the effectiveness of skin­-to-skin contact between Father and baby delivered by Lower Segmental Caesarean Section in terms of paternal and neonatal outcome in selected hospitals of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

u Associate the paternal and neonatal outcomes with selected Socio - demographic variables. 

HYPOTHESIS

u H₁:   There is no difference in paternal and neonatal outcomes after the implementation of skin-to-skin contact between the fathers in the experimental and control group at 0.05 level of significance.

u H₂:   There is no association between the paternal and neonatal outcome with selected Socio- Demographic variables at 0.05 level of significance.