Dear Barbara,

I found abstract of this article here
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/spae/2004/00000093/00000012/art00016;jsessionid=9dlt8loss0i6d.henrietta>

"Aim: To determine the effects of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact 
immediately after birth on infant recognition of their own mother's milk 
odour and breastfeeding duration until 1 y of age. Methods: Sixty healthy, 
full-term neonates were randomly assigned to group A with skin-to-skin 
contact and group B without. One and 4 d after birth, infant responses to 
the following odour stimuli were observed: own mother's milk, another 
mother's milk, formula, orange juice and distilled water. Infant facial 
action was videotaped and the frequency of mouthing movements was evaluated 
for each stimulus. Nutritional assessment, focused particularly on 
breastfeeding, was performed every 3 mo on participating infants. 
Statistical analysis comparing the frequency of mouthing movements with the 
aforementioned five different odour exposures was performed by ANOVA with 
Fisher's PLSD. Kaplan-Meier analysis with a log-rank test was used to 
compare breastfeeding rates between groups. Results: Infants in both groups 
responded differently to mother's milk odour (either their own or another 
mother's milk) compared to the other stimuli on days 1 and 4. However, 
infants in group A demonstrated a larger difference in mouthing movements 
between their own and another mother's milk odour at 4 d of age (2.6 ± 1.6) 
compared to infants in group B (0.9 ± 2.0, p = 0.01). Infants in group A 
were breastfed an average of 1.9 mo longer than the others.

Conclusion: Our study provides evidence that mother-infant skin-to-skin 
contact for more than 50 min immediately after birth results in enhanced 
infant recognition of their own mother's milk odour and longer breastfeeding 
duration"

I really feel for infants who was randomly assigned to group without skin to 
skin

Sincerely yours,
Victoria Nesterova, bf supporter,
Kiev, Ukraine

----- Original Message ----- 

>I received this from Dr Jack Newman and cannot find full article nor the
> abstract doing a NIH search; can anyone help me with this?  However, I did 
> find a
> wealth of breastfeeding related information from 2004 articles in Acta
> Paediatrica journal and would also like to know how to obtain full text 
> from NIH for
> some of these articles including ones on SIDS, adding anti-secretory 
> factor to
> mom's cereal to decrease mastitis, etc.

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