Newborn right-holding is related to depressive symptoms in bottle-feeding mothers but not in breastfeeding mothers

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 352-360

  Donnot, Julien ^a   Vauclair, Jacques ^a   Bréjard, Vincent ^b  

^a University of Provence Aix Marseille University   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Bottle feeding; Breastfeeding; Infant holding; Laterality; Maternal depression; Mother child relationship; Perception of emotions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL DISEASE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TOUCH;

ADULT; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS;

EID: 47849123020     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.12.013     Document Type: Article

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