PEDIATRICS Vol. 70 No. 5 November 1982, pp. 763-768
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Early Contact and Maternal-Infant Bonding: One Decade Later

Michael E. Lamb PhD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City

In the last decade, there has been considerable speculation concerning the importance of early skin-to-skin contact between parturient mothers and neonates. This contact is viewed as crucial to the occurrence of maternal bonding, which is seen as a precursor of optimal maternal behavior and thus as a necessary antecedent of optimal child development. In the present review, these conclusions are shown to have been based on equivocal findings obtained in methodologically impoverished studies. Although early contact may have modest but beneficial short-term effects in some circumstances, no positive long-term effects have been demonstrated.

Submitted on May 7, 1982
Accepted on June 16, 1982




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