Normal versus caesarian delivery: Effects upon survival probability, weaning weight, and open-field activity.
- 1 February 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 61 (1) , 159-160
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0022868
Abstract
Naturally born rats (N = 120) were compared with caesarian-delivered rats (N = 108) to test the hypothesis that the stimulation received during the normal birth process is of some functional significance. Some of the mothers used in the study had been handled in infancy and some had not. The percentage of offspring surviving through weaning, weaning weight, and open-field activity at weaning were evaluated. No significant difference was found between normally delivered and caesarian-delivered offspring.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: