The early research was done by Jean Cranston Anderson and then Sue 
Luddington Hoe. Jean has many research articles showing basics and benefits 
to preterm infants. Sue wrote"Kangaroo Care: The Best You Can Do to Help 
Your Preterm Infant" in 1993.  Somewhere along the line some wise woman 
said - if it's so good for premies, wouldn't it be good for the fullterm 
baby? And the Skin-to-Skin movement was born.
We now know that babies transition so much more naturally and it really 
helps get breastfeeding off to a good start, instead of separating mother 
and baby.  Dr Anderson was very out spoken about mother-baby separation in 
many of her articles.

One of my favorite articles was by Dr Anderson in 1989!!!!!!!!!
"Risk of Mother-Infant Separation Postbirth", IMAGE: J Nurs Scholarship, 
Vol.21, No.4, pp.196-199.

I wrote my master's thesis in 1994 on how long it takes to get from research 
to practice in nursing.  I figured about 20-30 years at that time, so it 
figures that many nurses are just discovering SSK 20 years or so after Dr 
Anderson's and Dr Hoe's articles :-(  Pat in SNJ 

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