In fact I have written a blog post about it on my website on fathers and their feathers, and it
came about from a question that was asked to me about a dad that «my husband doesn't like to do
skin - to -
skin contact because he feels like the hair on his chest is going to bothered the baby,» and I have to tell them that it doesn't matter what the father's
hairy chest looks like, the baby is going to love being there.
Interestingly, by recording the electrical activity in the spinal cords of mice depleted of NPY interneurons, the researchers discovered that the NPY neurons seem to selectively inhibit or gate light touch signals
coming from
hairy skin, but not the non-
hairy (glabrous)
skin, such as the
skin found on your palm.