Commentary: An early, short, and useful sensitive period in the human infant.

摘要

Ksenia Bystrova, aided by her colleagues from the Department of Women and Child Health at the Karolin-ska Institute in Sweden and by her Russian colleagues at Hospital 13 in St. Petersburg, where the study was done, are the authors of the paper entitled "Early Contact versus Separation: Effects on Mother-Infant Interaction One Year Later" (1), which precedes this commentary. Their findings are new, provocative, and relevant. This report examines the role of closeness versus separation of the mother and infant and skin-to-skin contact versus no contact from 30 to 120 minutes after birth in 176 infants whose mother had a normal pregnancy and labor and who required no drugs for pain. The infants were randomized into 4 experimental groups.