Hi Rosellina Nils Bergman has a web site with some references & other info & photos.It is www.kangaroomothercare.com/ He was very inspiring at the conference.Have you heard of him?He is especially interested in premature care & has used kangaroo care with successs for very low birth weight babies as small as 700gm. The paper he presented was called "Humans And Kangaroos-A Biological Perspective".He has an email address on the website & he may send a copy to you.If he cant,let me know & I can try & send it to you. There are some references on the web site too.Some more are:- Feldman R,Eidelman Al.Skin-to-skin contact(Kangaroo Care) accelerates autonomic and neurobehavioural maturation in preterm infants.Dev.Med.Child Neurol.2003;45(4):274-81 Schore AN.Effects of a secure attachment relationship on right brain development,affect regulation,and infant mental health.Infant Mental Health Journal 2001;22(1-2):7-66. Schore AN.The effects of early relational trauma on right brain development,affect regulation and infant mental health.Infant Mental Health Journal 2001;22(1-2)201-69. Hope the above is of some help Anne Fox -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html