Scottish midwives design ‘game-changing’ scrubs for fathers

Initial skin-to-skin contact directly after giving birth can be challenging in a theatre.

Midwives at St Johns Hospital in Livingston have created a “game-changing” set of scrubs for birth partners which they say could revolutionise neo-natal care.

The specially designed scrubs have a kangaroo-style pouch to allow vital skin-to-skin contact to take place as soon as a baby is born.

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