| Title | Impact of skin-to-skin contact on the autonomic nervous system in the preterm infant and his mother. | ||
| Author | Butruille, L; Blouin, A; De Jonckheere, J; Mur, S; Margez, T; Rakza, T; Storme, L | ||
| Journal | Infant Behav Dev | Publication Year/Month | 2017-Nov |
| PMID | 28777974 | PMCID | -N/A- |
| Affiliation + expend | 1.EA4489, Environnement perinatal et sante, Faculte de medecine, Universite de Lille, France; Mdoloris Medical Systems, Loos, France. Electronic address: laura.butruille@hotmail.fr. | ||
Before, during and after mother-newborn skin-to-skin contact (SSC), parasympathetic activity was evaluated by heart rate variability (HRV) analysis. SSC had a favorable impact on maternal and premature infant parasympathetic activities with a more pronounced response for neonates when the basal HRV values were lower, without modifications of EDIN scores, temperatures or oxygen saturation.