Fathers' postnatal hormone levels predict later caregiving

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

Dads whose cortisol levels were elevated while they held their newborns on the day of their birth -- either skin-to-skin or clothed -- were more likely to be involved with indirect care and play with their infants in the first months of their lives.

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