In a message dated 3/4/2009 8:22:39 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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I relate  the study with the baby's  from the orphanage that were fed formula 
in  two groups: one with a wire caretaker and no   interaction/touch and  the 
other with a human caretaker and how the ones that were not    touched had 
failure to thrive in even died, while the other group grew  well.   



I might have a bad memory, but this seems like a conflation of two studies:  
1. Harry Harlow's monkeys where they had a wire mom  with a bottle and  monkey 
formula, and a cloth mom without, and the monkey babes would clutch  the 
cloth mom as much as possible and only go to the wire mom when they were  flat out 
hungry, then back to the cloth one again for touch comfort,  and  2. the 
Eastern European orphanage where they realized that the babies closest to  the 
door, who got little hellos or whatever as staff walked by in addition  to their 
bottles, were surviving better than the ones away  from the door at the other 
end, who got formula but minimal/no  interaction.  
 
Comments?
 
Peace,
Judy  

Judy LeVan  Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL
Brooklyn, NY,  USA

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