Hi. I am responding to the post about temp regulation and fathers. Susan Ludington gave a great talk in Chicago Friday about kangaroo care. I still need to go through my notes, but I do clearly remember her stating that only mom can truly regulate temp in newborn because the breast can cool down or heat up where dads chest tends to just heat up and stay that way regardless of baby's temp. However she does recommend skin to skin for dads to help baby recognize his smell ect. She also mentioned that a baby will root and search for breast on dad and some will even latch onto to dad's nipple. One baby sucked on dad for quite awhile in one study that was done. Of course that brought laughter to the audience when Susan told us how proud dad was of his baby!! Susan also mentioned something about oxytocin levels in dad fluctuating with skin contact but I will have to reread that for a better understanding. She said that the American Dermatological Society (I think that is the one) is making some amazing breakthroughs in cutaneous neurobiology. If anyone would like some references on what I have posted I can get them to you. Just let me know. Christine Lichte, LLL Leader, IBCLC *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html