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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020

Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact: Short- and Long-Term Effects for Mothers and Their Children Born Full-Term.

Ann E Bigelow, Michelle Power

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Skin-to-Skin Contact and Breastfeeding After Planned Cesarean Birth Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ann E BigelowDepartment of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada.
Michelle PowerDepartment of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada.
St. Francis Xavier University · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This brief report reviews findings from a longitudinal study of skin-to-skin contact (SSC) with mothers and full-term infants and a follow-up study of these dyads when the children were 9 years. Findings infer the positive influence of SSC on mother-child interactions in infancy and into children's middle childhood. Mothers and infants in SSC and control groups were seen when infants were 1 week, 1 month, 2 months, and 3 months. SSC group mothers reported fewer depressive symptoms in infants' early weeks and had a greater reduction in salivary cortisol, a physiological stress indicator, in infants' first month (Bigelow et al., 2012). SSC group mothers who initially chose to breastfeed continued to breastfeed their infants throughout the 3 months, whereas breastfeeding mothers in the control group declined over the visits (Bigelow et al., 2014). When engaged in the Still Face Task with their mothers, SSC group infants showed the still face effect with their affect at 1 month, a month before the control group infants did so (Bigelow and Power, 2012). At 3 months, SSC group infants were social bidding to their mothers during the still face phase. When the children were 9 years, the mother-child dyads engaged in conversations about the children's remembered emotional events (Bigelow et al., 2018). Mother-child dyads who had been in the SSC group showed more engagement and reciprocity in the conversations than mother-child dyads who had been in the control group. Oxytocin, which is induced by SSC, is hypothesized to be an underlying factor that helped the mother-infant relationship have a positive trajectory with long-term benefits.

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breastfeedinginfants’ self-agencymother–child emotional communicationmother–child short‐ and long-term relationsmother–infant skin-to-skin contactpostpartum depressive symptoms

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PMID32982827
PMCPMC7485314
OpenAlexW3081776148

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