Cuddle deprivation may have confounded experiment

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EDITOR,--While it is laudable that Nora Haouari and colleagues are concerned to minimise the trauma associated with a common neonatal procedure, the starting point for their investigation seems somewhat misplaced.1 Firstly, they report that “parents could be present but did not speak or touch the baby during the procedure.” Three minutes is a long time to leave a baby without such comfort. I am …