Teaching chilean mothers to massage their full-term infants: Effects on maternal breast-feeding and infant weight gain at age 2 and 4 months

Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 172-179

  Serrano, Maria Sylvia Campos ^a   Doren, Francisca Márquez ^a   Wilson, Lynda ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Global health; Infant; Massage

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951993976     PISSN: 08932190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JPN.0b013e3181db5377     Document Type: Article

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