Concerning parents' early and extended contact with their infant and the relationships built, nurses should be aware that:
1. immediate contact is essential for the parent-child relationship.
2. skin-to-skin contact is preferable to contact with the body totally wrapped in a blanket.
3. extended contact is especially important for adolescents and low-income women because they are at risk for parenting inadequacies.
4. mothers need to have precedence over their partners and other family matters.
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1. Incorrect. Immediate contact facilitates the attachment process but is not essential; other-wise, adopted infants would not establish the affectionate ties they do.
2. Incorrect. The mode of infant-mother contact does not appear to have any important ef-fect.
3. Correct. Nurses should encourage any activity that optimizes family extended contact.
4. Incorrect. Mothers and their partners are considered equally important.
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