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. *********************************************** 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