With regard to the thread on kangaroo care,
responding to the clip: (When catching up, I read issues in backwards order,
so I clipped this from a reply to it, I haven't gotten back to the original
note)

>Well, the nurses were concerned because they say that they
>have twice had babies get  too cool when the dads were holding them like
>this, though they were bundled..... they said the moms kept the babies nice
>and warm, but they were concerned that the same didn't seem to hold true
with
>the dads.

I can't find my book on kangaroo care, but it was either in there, or in a
talk by Gene Cranston Anderson, that I heard the remark that stuck with me,
that mother's bodies' skin temperature will respond with a 2 degree rise (I
think, please don't quote me as I don't have the reference at hand) for every
0.1 degree drop in baby's temp; but that dad's bodies don't do this; they do
warm, perhaps more nonspecifically? but I guess there is no feedback
mechanism?? some kind of postpartum hormonal control is hypothesized by I
don't think the reasoning is understood yet.

Now I mean it,<g>, don't quote this til we find out where it comes from.
Who's got the reference?

Tina Smillie, MD, IBCLC