Hi, Susan:
Here are a few articles that talk about the impact of massage (either provided for a mother or done by a mother for her infant) on maternal depression. Two are by Tiffany Fields:
Field T, Grizzle N, Scafidi F, Schanberg S. Massage and relaxation therapies' effects on depressed adolescent mothers. Adolescence 1996;31:903-1002.
Field T, Grizzle N, Scafidi F, Abrams S, Richardson S. Massage therapy for infants of depressed mothers. Infant Behav Dev 1996;19:107-112.
Onozawa K, Glover V, Adams D, Modi N, Kumar RC. Infant massage improves mother-infant interaction for mothers with postnatal depression. J Affect Disord 2001;63:201-207.
For a few additional and newer articles, just type in "post-partum depression massage" into PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi).
P.S. I am still nomail. I just happen to have visited Lactnet the last couple of days. So please carbon copy my personal email, if you want to be sure I see a post.
Cynthia
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