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Table 5 Examples of “mothers' reports of 'hands-on latch intervention' during hospital stay”

From: Effects of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact on severe latch-on problems in older infants: a randomized trial

Mothers reports of “hands-on”

Experimental

group

n = 53

Number of

mothers

Control group

n = 50

Number of

mothers

“Hands-on” not hard: “not painful” “I didn’t know anything else” “unpleasant” “stressful”

19

19

“Hands-on” hard:

“squeeze and pulling hard” “painful” ”violent” “humiliating” ”forceful” “heavy handed” “lasting bruises”

24

25

Did not receive “hands-on”

3

2

Not noted

7

4

Total

53

50