OBJECTIVE: Conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis estimating the association
between KMC and neonatal outcomes. DATA SOURCES: PubMed, Embase, Web of …

Ten to twenty percent of postpartum women experience anxiety or depressive disorders,
which can have detrimental effects on the mother, child, and family. Little is known about the …

Background Maternal–newborn contact enhances organization of the infant's physiological
systems, including stress reactivity, autonomic functioning, and sleep patterns, and supports …

During the early period of hypothesis building and empirical testing of attachment theory, a
major emphasis was placed on mother-infant physical contact. In spite of this, mother-infant …

Background Mother‐infant separation post birth is common. In standard hospital care,
newborn infants are held wrapped or dressed in their mother's arms, placed in open cribs or …

Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is an evidence-based approach to reducing mortality and
morbidity in preterm infants. Although KMC is a key intervention package in newborn health …

The positive clinical effects caused by skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth or after
repeated skin-to-skin contact of premature infants (kangaroo care) or fullterm infants are well …

Aims To examine the relationship between specific reasons for stopping breastfeeding and
depressive symptoms in the postnatal period. Background Difficulty breastfeeding has been …

Aim To evaluate the effects of almost continuous skin-to-skin contact (SSC) on salivary
cortisol, parental stress, parental depression, and breastfeeding. Study design This is a …

Both babies and their parents may experience a stay in the newborn intensive care unit
(NICU) as a traumatic or a 'toxic stress,'which can lead to dysregulation of the hypothalamic …