skin to skin
Bodies pressed together
Skin to skin describes direct bodily contact without clothing or barriers between.
The phrase appears most often in medical contexts for the practice of placing a newborn directly against a parent's bare chest: The nurse encouraged skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth.
More generally, it suggests intimate physical closeness: They lay skin to skin in the dark.
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
- first touchOpening control of ball
- contactCommunication or physical touch
- intimateClosely personal or private
- warmthHeat you feel
body heat · embrace · cuddle · newborn · golden hour · bonding · bare · bare chest · flesh · closeness · kangaroo · mother · new mom · baby · heartbeat · comfort · naked · tenderness
- Maternity Wardmaternity ward, labor and delivery, delivery room, labor room, midwife
- closenessclose by, close contact, close-knit, next door, up close
- childbirthcontractions, labor, pushing, dilation, birth
- motherhoodmother, mom, mama, mum, mommy
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
- baby gearbaby bottle, baby carrier, baby bottles, car seat, pram
skin to skinno contact
Absence of communication
contactless · at arm's length · apart · separated · hands-off
skin to skindistant
Far away or aloof
hands-off · standoffish · remote · impersonal · clinical
skin, skins, skinned, skinning, skinny, skinnier, skinniest, skinniness