Nurturing touch helps mothers with postpartum depression and their infants

Neonatal Network

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-72

  Discenza, Deb ^a  

^a PreemieWorld   (United States)

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EID: 84870861649     PISSN: 07300832     EISSN: 15392880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0730-0832.30.1.71     Document Type: Note

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