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Maternal Analgesia During Labor Disturbs Newborn Behavior: Effects on Breastfeeding, Temperature, and Crying by Anna-Berit Ransjö-Arvidson; Ann-Sofi Matthiesen; Gunilla Lilja; Eva Nissen; Ann-Marie Widström; Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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**Background:** __Newborns not exposed to analgesia, when placed on the mother's chest, exhibit an inborn prefeeding behavior. This study was performed to assess the effects of different types of analgesia during labor on the development of spontaneous breastfeeding movements, crying behavior, and skin temperature during the first hours of life in healthy term newborns.__ **Methods:** __Video recordings were made of 28 newborns who had been dried and placed in skin‐to‐skin contact between their mother's breasts immediately after delivery. The video recordings were analyzed blindly with respect to infant exposure to analgesia. Defined infant behaviors were assessed every 30 seconds. Group 1 mothers (__n __= 10) had received no analgesia during labor, group 2 mothers (__n__= 6) had received mepivacaine via pudendal block, and group 3 mothers (__n__= 12) had received pethidine or bupivacaine or more than one type of analgesia during labor.__**Results:**__All infants made finger and hand movements, but the infant's massagelike hand movements were less frequent in infants whose mothers had received labor analgesia. A significantly lower proportion of group 3 infants made hand‐to‐mouth m

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Author

Anna-Berit Ransjö-Arvidson; Ann-Sofi Matthiesen; Gunilla Lilja; Eva Nissen; Ann-Marie Widström; Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0730-7659)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)