Skin-to-skin contact. Benefits and difficulties

Pract Midwife. 2001 May;4(5):30-2.

Authors

H Wallace¹, D Marshall

Affiliation

¹ Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, Belfast.

PMID: 12026794

No abstract available

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Attitude to Health / ethnology
Body Temperature Regulation
Breast Feeding / psychology
Cultural Characteristics
Female
Humans
Infant Care / methods*
Infant Care / psychology*
Infant, Newborn / physiology*
Infant, Newborn / psychology*
Maternal-Child Nursing / methods
Mother-Child Relations*
Nurse Midwives
Object Attachment
Postnatal Care / methods
Postnatal Care / psychology*
Psychology, Child
Skin*
Social Values
Touch / physiology*