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Breastfeeding Twins
Published in Mary Nolan, Shona Gore, Contemporary Issues in Perinatal Education, 2023
Kangaroo care should be supported as soon as the babies are stable. Preterm babies become more stable more quickly when held skin to skin (Bergman et al., 2004). Frequent and extended skin to skin has also been associated with earlier exclusive breastfeeding and higher volumes of milk when expressing (Nyqvist, 2007).
Preterm infants
Published in Judy More, Infant, Child and Adolescent Nutrition, 2021
Kangaroo care (Figure 11.3) involves the infant being secured against the mother or father’s skin – often on the mother’s chest between her breasts. This maintains the infant’s body heat and the benefits for the infant include reduced morbidity and mortality. Benefits are also seen in low birth weight infants cared for at home (Mazumder et al. 2019).
Assessment of visual processing functions and disorders
Published in John Ravenscroft, The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment, 2019
Some infants and children are likely to have visual processing disorders as a part of their severe brain damage that has caused such a delay in development that often only observations by experienced therapists and teachers can register improvement in weak visual responses. These children are blind in clinical examinations, but they may have useful vision, often visual information in motion. Observations by teachers, therapists and parents are important in the assessment of these children. Therefore, all workers need training in early intervention for blind infants as well as exposure to pleasant visual information. Infants with multiple problems should be in kangaroo care (skin- to-skin contact) when they are small infants and close to another person if they are so big that they can be on an adult’s lap for only short times. To develop their awareness of social connections and skills is as important as in the care of typically developing children. Joy and warm relationships are the most important “medications” for the development of their brain and emotions. Many students at early developmental level may have nearly normal functions in a limited area.
Designing dress (Sarbebe) for kangaroo care, the effect of kangaroo care provided with this dress on mother and newborn's comfort†
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2022
Kangaroo Care (KC) is the skin-to-skin contact of the infant, who has a diaper only, with the parent which enables interaction between the parent and infant, and the placement of the infant in the upright position, facing the parent, on the parent's chest (Conde-Agudelo et al., 2011; Conde-Agudelo & Díaz-Rossello, 2014; Peker, 2015). In the infant in whom skin-to-skin contact is ensured with the parent, relaxation, soothing and fast sleep and long-term sleeping occur with the parents' heart sounds. During KC, the parent keeps the baby in her clothes to ensure the baby's thermoregulation, so the mother feels that her pregnancy is over and starts to be engaged in the motherhood-fatherhood role early. KC shortens the duration of stay in the hospital by ensuring that the infant's vital signs are stable and reducing the negative effects of NICU on the infant. It is a practice that facilitates breastfeeding and has positive effects on the growth and development of the infant (Carbasse et al., 2013; Charpak et al., 2005; Conde-Agudelo, et al., 2011; Conde-Agudelo & Díaz-Rossello, 2014; Gupta et al., 2007; Karimi et al., 2014; 2016; 2019; 2020; Khadivzadeh et al., 2016; Yıldırım, 2009). It was revealed that the KC decreased the mortality rate, provided physiological benefits and was an economical method and started to be supported by the United Nations International Children's Fund ([Uu]nited[Nn]ations[Cc]hildren’s[Ff]und (UNICEF)) in 1984 (Charpak et al., 2005; Peker, 2015; Venancio & Almeida, 2004; Yıldırım, 2009).
Effects of acupressure, gum chewing and coffee consumption on the gastrointestinal system after caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2021
Derya Kanza Gül, Ayça Şolt Kırca
GIS immotility is a common complication after abdominal surgery, and it prolongs hospital stay. Caesarean section, one of the most common operations women undergo, causes many GIS immotility-related complications, such as abdominal pain, difficulty in the oral intake of required nutrients, flatulence, delayed defaecation, and the mother’s inability to breastfeed her baby effectively. In the literature, the early initiation of skin-to-skin contact (i.e. kangaroo care) is essential to achieve mother–infant attachment, which is necessary for the mental and physical development of the newborn (Ferber and Makhoul 2004). However, the mother's prolonged stay in bed due to GIS immotility-related complications may prevent this strong bond from forming. Therefore, achieving an effective and standardised care is important to accelerate the healing process and to reduce the postoperative bed rest time in mothers by increasing GIS motility and thus speeding up the flatulation and defaecation processes.
Romania’s Forgotten Children: Sensory Deprivation Revisited
Published in Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, 2020
The vintage and now seminal work of Bowlby is poignant given recent longitudinal research over a 20-year period from Israel. This new research indicates that preterm or low birthweight babies being nursed in incubators and being deprived of their mother’s touch during the early weeks of life may suffer long term and enduring emotional problems. This study compared outcomes from a cohort of 146 babies where 50% of them were allocated to a Kangaroo care group where they could have skin-to-skin contact with their mother without the incubator. The babies who did not receive Kangaroo care where the mother (or father) is enabled to cuddle the baby chest-to-chest and skin-to-skin fared less well emotionally when compared to those babies who benefited from this intervention. It is important to stress that many western countries including neonatal units in the United States and the United Kingdom do facilitate kangaroo care (Knapton, 2020).