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The first hours after birth are a sensitive process in terms of providing sensual contact and breastfeeding, which improves the interaction of mother and newborn infant. Providing early postpartum skin-to skin contact facilitates the development of maternal behavior, breastfeeding success and the newborn infant's adaptation to life. While skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding provide the development of a sense of trust for the newborn, it gives satisfaction and happiness to the mother. However, it is a common practice to separate the mother and the baby for reasons such as the care of the newborn after cesarean section, the recovery of the mother and the comfort. On the other hand, problems experienced after cesarean section may cause the mother to feel more stressed about breastfeeding and yo decrease breastfeeding success. For this reason, after cesarean section, providing skin-to-skin contact of infant and mother, supporting breastfeeding, keeping mother and newborn infant together constitute an important part of postoperative nursing care. In this review, the information is given about the supporting and importance of breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact after cesarean section.