Effects of amount of contact between mother and child on the mother's nursing behavior

1 March 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Developmental Psychobiology

Vol. 11 (2) , 143-150
https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.420110206

Abstract

Short‐term effects of different amounts of body contact between mother and newborn on human nursing behavior were studied. Extended contact immediately after parturition was related to an increase in affective components of maternal nursing behavior observed on postpartum Days 2 and 4.

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