SKIPPY Study
In studies with preterm infants, research has shown that proximity and close physical contact between the mother and the preterm infant is associated with improved psychological, behavioural, and biological outcomes in the infant as well as improved maternal physical and mental health. Based on these previous findings, proximity and close physical contact may have positive effects in mothers and their full-term infants as well.
In this project, we will investigate whether proximity and close physical contact between mothers and their full-term infants are related to improved psychological, behavioural, and biological outcomes in full-term infants, improved quality of the mother-infant relationship, as well as improved maternal physical and mental health. We will focus on sleeping, feeding and holding as important characteristics of proximity and close physical contact between mothers and their full-term infants. Additionally, we will investigate the effects of a 5-week contact intervention between mothers and their full-term infants starting immediately after birth.
We recruited 116 healthy mothers during pregnancy. The mother-infant dyads were followed throughout the first postnatal year, and a follow-up assessment took place at age three.
The following people from our lab are working in this study: Kelly Cooijmans, Nicole Rheinheimer, Roseriet Beijers, Carolina de Weerth
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