Skin to skin
5 articles
The Role of Physical Contact in Falling Asleep
Physical contact in the settling process is the subject of much parenting advice, most of it focused on whether it will create a "problem." This frami...
Touch-Based Games to Support Infant Development
Touch is the first sense to develop in utero (around 8 weeks) and the most fully wired at birth. For an infant, the skin is doing what the eyes will o...
The Role of Physical Contact in an Infant's Emotional Development
"Are you spoiling her by holding her so much?" New parents hear this from well-meaning relatives and absorb the worry. Developmental science is unusua...
How Emotional Bonding Between Mother and Newborn Develops
The "magical bonding moment" at birth is one of the most damaging stories told to new mothers. About a third of women describe their first feeling tow...
Baby Massage: Benefits, Technique, and Evidence
Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb and stays the most important channel of communication between you and your baby in the first months. M...