Background

With a baby comes a mother. Early motherhood is enveloped in joy, nervousness, and questions-questions of how best to give a newborn the greatest start in life. The first days after delivery are a guidance-, emotional support-, and professional care-sensitive period. More and more, today's hospitals and birth centers prepare mothers for labor through childbirth preparation classes, offer personalized breastfeeding support, and provide a constant presence of trained neonatal nurses all making a perhaps otherwise vulnerable phase into a beautiful and confident beginning.