In those terms are expressed neonatology services that opt ??for the humanization and skin contact between baby and parent’s chest. In this remarkable progress, we are eliminating the restrictions of the parents stay with the child. In recent decades, new technologies would eventually replace the mothers by a machine (incubator) and multiple cables.
Hospital La Fe, Valencia (Spain) has developed a bag for holding the baby, called kangaroo mother.
That bag was designed in 1978 in the Instituto Materno Infantil de Bogotá, Colombia. In the absence of incubators, some restraints were produced that allowed to take the babies home when his weight reached the 1500 or 1600 grams. Well wrapped up by the mother’s breasts, they received food and heat and, consequently, increased temperature and weight.
With the implementation of this method was observed to produce fewer deaths and infections. The World Health Organization endorsed it and now has spread to many Western health services.
“Incubators have a key role in critical situations. But technology generated stress (breathing noise, light, alarm monitors) that can affect mental development of the child. Faced with this risk, nothing like the contact with the mother (or father) his warmth, his smell, his whispers and his heartbeat against baby’s skin. “The more time you spend and, better,” said Dr. White Gascó, La Fe ‘And not only is positive for very premature, it also has enormous reparative effects in newborns who have been separated from the mother.
The benefits of warmth
Premature infants who have no complications can go home when they weigh over 1700 grams. Previously, in the neonatal unit where he has remained a time their child, parents have already learned how to serve you. Instead of waiting for the baby to gain weight, take him home so that your care and affection, to develop more rapidly than in the less hospitable environment of a hospital.
This practice brings benefits in the physical and mental development of children and emotional benefits for the mother. If the family situation allows, it is preferable that the child is not left with the nurses. The mother, in collaboration with family, must be well cared for. The milk quality and quantity are often closely related to the quality of life of the mother. Everything in the right direction lead to better physical, intellectual and emotional development of the baby and the baby.
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