Randomized controlled trial of music
during kangaroo care on maternal state anxiety and preterm infants» responses
The RCT evidence (1 +) suggests that the use of kangaroo care significantly reduces maternal anxiety around her infant and gives the mother a significantly greater sense of competence with their infant and a significantly greater sensitivity towards her infant.32 Furthermore, RCT evidence (1 +) suggests that music
during kangaroo care resulted in significantly lower maternal anxiety.33
The direct connection with your skin
during Kangaroo Care soothes baby so much that babies» cortisol levels (stress hormone) are measurably lowered after only 20 minutes of being held Skin - to - Skin.
Do you find that your baby is slipping all over the place
during kangaroo care, or do you feel afraid that you're going to drop your preemie, making it impossible for you to actually relax and enjoy your cuddle time?
I enjoy caring for preemies at every stage of their young lives - from the touch and go fragility of newly born preemies, to the hard - earned celebrations for accomplishments like taking a full bottle or having no apnea
during a kangaroo care time.
Not exact matches
You can develop a fathering relationship with a premature baby by taking temperatures, changing diapers, practicing
kangaroo care, or holding your baby
during feedings, even if those feedings go in through a feeding tube.
This includes essential
care during childbirth and in the postnatal period for every mother and baby, including antenatal steroid injections (given to pregnant women at risk of preterm labour to strengthen the babies» lungs),
kangaroo mother
care (when the baby is carried by the mother with skin - to - skin contact and frequent breastfeeding), and antibiotics to treat newborn infections.
Ludington - Hoe, S. «Breast Infant Temperature with Twins
during shared
Kangaroo Care,» 2006 Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing, 35 (2) 223 - 231