Rachael, I'm also a fan of the Swedish research in this area and have a few of Christensson's papers lying around. I wondered however, if anyone knows anything more about fathers providing temperature regulation? The reason why I ask this is that I recall Nil Bergmann saying that fathers tend to overheat preterm infants, I haven't seen anything published but I am sure I heard this (ABA intl conference in Brisbane 3 years ago?). I wonder is this is an area of different between preterm and term babies or perhaps a case of differences in method? or perhaps the clue is in the second last sentence of the abstract and fathers do tend to overheat? Whichever way, I'd like to know, do mothers do this better than fathers? How much of the skin to skin stuff impacting the baby is limited to the biological mother? Karleen Gribble Australia > Christensson K. Fathers can effectively achieve heat conservation in healthy > newborn infants.Acta Paediatr. 1996 Nov;85(11):1354-60. > >> The aim of the present study was to compare axillar and skin temperatures > and metabolic adaptation in healthy, fullterm elective caesarean section > delivered infants who were randomized to be cared-for either in (a) an > incubator, (b) a cot, or (c) skin-to-skin with the father. Forty-four > infants were studied. The mean axillary temperature increase was > significantly greater in the skin-to-skin cared-for infants than in the cot > cared-for group. Interestingly, at 24 h after birth the mean axillary temperature was > significantly higher in the skin-to-skin group than in the incubator group. > It can be concluded that fathers can effectively achieve heat conservation > in healthy fullterm caesarean section delivered infants. > > *********************************************** 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