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Skin-to-skin: after birth, once baby is medically stable, hold chest-to-chest before a long nursery separation. The same hold at home is how you notice rooting and temperature wobble. A wrap or robe keeps both of you warm so the hold lasts longer than a photograph.

Offer breast or bottle when baby roots or at least every 2–3 hours. By day 5 the published count is six or more wet nappies in 24 hours — that count is the event, not a clock. Evening cluster feeds in the first week are a growth-spurt event, not proof the milk ran out.

Every sleep — first nap at home and 3 a.m. — is the same event: firm flat surface, on the back, no soft bedding, smoke-free room. Room-share in the same room; do not share the sleep surface, per AAP.

Schedule the first visit within 3–5 days. That visit, with the two-week weigh-in, is how the page confirms birth weight is coming back. Slow gain means more feeds, not longer stretches — do not skip a feed to “stretch” night sleep before weight is back.