Early Human Development
Volume 83, Issue 1 , Pages 29-39 , January 2007

The effect of Russian Maternity Home routines on breastfeeding and neonatal weight loss with special reference to swaddling

  • K. Bystrova

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hospital Pediatrics, St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia
    • Department of Woman and Child Health, Division of Reproductive and Perinatal Health Care, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Retzius väg 13 A, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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  • A.-S. Matthiesen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Woman and Child Health, Division of Reproductive and Perinatal Health Care, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Retzius väg 13 A, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Statistics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • A.-M. Widström

      Affiliations

    • Department of Woman and Child Health, Division of Reproductive and Perinatal Health Care, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Retzius väg 13 A, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 08 524 824 13; fax: +46 08 524 824 00.
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  • A.-B. Ransjö-Arvidson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Woman and Child Health, Division of Reproductive and Perinatal Health Care, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Retzius väg 13 A, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • B. Welles-Nyström

      Affiliations

    • Department of Woman and Child Health, Division of Reproductive and Perinatal Health Care, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Retzius väg 13 A, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • I. Vorontsov

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hospital Pediatrics, St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia
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  • K. Uvnäs-Moberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Animal Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skara, Sweden

,Accepted 30 March 2006.

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PII: S0378-3782(06)00113-7

doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2006.03.016

Early Human Development
Volume 83, Issue 1 , Pages 29-39 , January 2007

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