The nurse is developing a plan of care for the patient's fourth stage of labor. One nursing intervention is to promote bonding. Specifically, which nursing action will facilitate the bonding process?

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Bonding refers to the rapid initial attraction felt by parents for their infant. It is unidirectional, from parent to child, and is enhanced when parents and infants are permitted to touch and interact during the first 30 to 60 minutes after birth. During this time, the infant is in a quiet, alert state and seems to gaze directly at the parents. Infants are often placed skin to skin on the mother's chest or abdomen for bonding time immediately after birth. Nurses frequently delay procedures such as measurements and medication administration that would interfere with this time, so that parents can focus on their newborn baby. Attachment follows a progressive or developmental course that changes over time. It is rarely instantaneous. Unlike bonding, attachment is reciprocal-it occurs in both directions between parent and infant.

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