SSC is a widely researched technique, in which a naked new-born (wearing only a nappy and a hat) is positioned on its mother's bare chest, covered with warm towels and a blanket. SSC has multiple advantages for both mothers and their new-borns. SSC is a usual practice within Rotunda Hospital, for babies born either vaginally or via CS. Although this technique is well established after vaginal birth, there is a great demand and attempts to establish it in mother-infant dyads after birth by a CS. A potential concern arising from this practice, however, is that new-borns, born by a CS, are more prone to losing their temperature and become hypothermic after a CS, compared with those born via normal birth. A risk factor is that if the mothers core temperature drops during the CS, leading to an even lower skin temperature, then the risk of a drop in the temperature of the new-born (via conduction) is increased by placing the naked baby for SSC on a mother whose temperature is suboptimal.