Temperature variation in newborn babies: importance of physical contact with the mother

Fransson, A-L

doi:10.1136/adc.2004.066589

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“…One of the prime indicators that proximity is at a neutral, and desired, level is body temperature. That is, Fransson, Karlsson, and Nilsson (2005) found that babies have smaller differences between skin temperature and core temperature when being held (vs. when not) potentially preventing hypothermia, and thus maintaining homeostasis.…”

Section: Further Distinguishing Humans From Penguins: Thermoregulatiomentioning

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People as Penguins: Thermoregulation as Part of the Human Essence

IJzerman¹,

Hogerzeil²

2017

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In this chapter we provide an overview of the domain of social thermoregulation. Our overview suggests that humans have always relied on, and still rely on, thermoregulation to navigate their social environment. In outlining social thermoregulation as a crucial feature of the human essence, we focus on the continuity of thermoregulatory mechanisms from other animals to humans. We then provide a number of different effects from the social psychological literature that helps us understand how thermoregulation is implicated in social behavior. From there on, we seek to understand our brain as a “hierarchically organized prediction machine” that helps us keep temperature at optimal levels. By then, it should be clear how thermoregulation is part of our human essence, how it changes our thoughts about others, and alters our motivations to be with others. We end by pointing to the implications of understanding thermoregulation as human essence.

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Section: Further Distinguishing Humans From Penguins: Thermoregulatiomentioning

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People as Penguins: Thermoregulation as Part of the Human Essence

IJzerman¹,

Hogerzeil²

2017

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“…Current information on incidence of hypothermia is based on the studies conducted in controlled environment of DRs from the developed countries [3][4][5][6] and from a few other studies conducted in PNWs 8,9,12 and communities of developing countries. [15][16][17][18][19][20] No information is available on thermal adaptation immediately after birth of infants who are delivered in hospitals and PHCs in countries with limited resources to maintain controlled room temperature and humidity as per standard guidelines.…”

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“…[1][2][3][4][5] These studies were mainly carried out in a controlled optimal environment. 6,7 In contrast, in developing countries the environment in the delivery rooms (DRs) is uncontrolled. 8,9 Studies in developing countries, including India, have demonstrated high incidence of hypothermia in neonatal period.…”

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Differences in thermal adaptation of infants delivered at primary or tertiary care facilities in India

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Objective: To compare the pattern of thermal stabilization seen in infants born at a rural primary health center (PHC) with that of infants born in an modern urban tertiary care hospital (TCH).Study Design: Abdominal temperature (Ta) and foot temperature (Tf) of healthy term newborn infants were monitored and electronically recorded continuously from birth in the delivery room (DR) until 12 h of life in the postnatal ward (PNW) at two sites. A total of 71 infants were enrolled in the study: 51 infants at the PHC and 20 infants at the TCH. Result:In infants delivered at TCH the maximum mean (±s.d.) Ta of 36.4 1C ± 0.48 was reached by 12 h, while at PHC maximum mean Ta was 35.4 1C (1.98) by 10.5 h. The mean Tf improved from the lowest value of 29.7 1C ± 1.3 at 4.5 h to 32.9 1C ± 1.6 by 12 h of life in infants delivered at TCH, whereas in infants delivered at PHC Tf remained low (maximum 30.7 1C) all through 12 h. The mean Td (Ta-Tf) gradually decreased from a maximum of 5.9 1C±1.6 at 4.5 h to 3.5 1C±1.5 by 12 h of life in infants born at TCH, but the Td remained at >5 1C even after 6 h of life in infants born at PHC, which was statistically significant (P<0.05). The calculated area between the Ta and Tf, a proxy for metabolic stress was greater in babies born at PHC than those born at TCH. Conclusion:Our study shows that although both groups of newborn infants experienced significant thermal stress, infants delivered at PHC experienced significantly greater thermal stress than babies born at TCH. This difference could be attributed to the differences in thermal environment of DR and PNW between PHC and TCH.

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“…That is, Fransson et al (2005) found that babies have smaller differences between skin temperature and core temperature when being held (vs. when not) potentially preventing hypothermia. Additionally, skin-to-skin contact leads the feet of neonates (that were skinto-skin, as compared to those that were removed from the skin of the mother and swaddled) to have a greater increase in skin temperature (Bystrova et al, 2007; for a summary see IJzerman et al, 2015b).…”

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Toward a Radically Embodied Neuroscience of Attachment and Relationships?

Beckes¹,

IJzerman²

2017

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Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969(Bowlby, /1982 posits the existence of internal working models as a foundational feature of human bonds. Radical embodied approaches instead suggest that cognition requires no computation or representation, favoring a cognition situated in a body in an environmental context with affordances for action (Chemero, 2009;Barrett, 2011;Wilson and Golonka, 2013;Casasanto and Lupyan, 2015). We explore whether embodied approaches to social soothing, interpersonal warmth, separation distress, and support seeking could replace representational constructs such as internal working models with a view of relationship cognition anchored in the resources afforded to the individual by their brain, body, and environment in interaction. We review the neurobiological bases for social attachments and relationships and attempt to delineate how these systems overlap or don't with more basic physiological systems in ways that support or contradict a radical embodied explanation. We suggest that many effects might be the result of the fact that relationship cognition depends on and emerges out of the action of neural systems that regulate several clearly physically grounded systems. For example, the neuropeptide oxytocin appears to be central to attachment and pair-bond behavior (Carter and Keverne, 2002) and is implicated in social thermoregulation more broadly, being necessary for maintaining a warm body temperature (for a review, see IJzerman et al., 2015b). Finally, we discuss the most challenging issues around taking a radically embodied perspective on social relationships. We find the most crucial challenge in individual differences in support seeking and responses to social contact, which have long been thought to be a function of representational structures in the mind (e.g., Baldwin, 1995). Together we entertain the thought to explain such individual differences without mediating representations or computations, but in the end propose a hybrid model of radical embodiment and internal representations.

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Temperature variation in newborn babies: importance of physical contact with the mother

Cited by 53 publications

References 11 publications

People as Penguins: Thermoregulation as Part of the Human Essence

People as Penguins: Thermoregulation as Part of the Human Essence

Differences in thermal adaptation of infants delivered at primary or tertiary care facilities in India

Toward a Radically Embodied Neuroscience of Attachment and Relationships?

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