The aim of this study was to illuminate the interaction between mother and infant in the condition of infantile colic and compare this with the interaction in a non-colic group. Infantile colic was defined as daily inconsolable crying. The sample, 21 mother-infant dyads, were recruited from six welfare centres in the north-west (a middle-class area) of Stockholm, A non-colic group, ten mother-infant dyads, were used as control group. The methods used were observing the feeding situation, interviewing the mother about pregnancy, labour and delivery, mother's first contact with the newborn, maternity stay, duration of breastfeeding, the infant's crying and medication, mother's food habits, etc. The mother was then asked to fill in a Sleep/ Activity Scale for the seven following days and nights. A questionnaire was sent six months post-partum to follow up the situation. Labour and delivery was a positive event for most of the mothers and all the fathers had taken part in it. The observations showed a tendency of disturbed mother-infant interaction during feeding. When the infant was crying it was usually the mother who took care and also developed several ways to try to console the infant.
Child-Health Centres (CHC) in Sweden have a very good reputation. Despite the non-obligatory status of the CHC, most families visit these centres. With the purpose of studying nurses' work in general and especially in relation to their dealing with crying infants, an interview study was carried out at eight CHCs in a district in Stockholm. The results were analysed with focus on nurse-parent relationships, paternalism, and nursing subculture. The findings of this study suggest that nurses at CHC work purposefully to develop a favourable relationship with parents, though sometimes they adopt a paternalistic approach. Their knowledge of research in pediatrics in general and in child health care in particular is good, but a degree of wariness of research findings is evident.
As part of a research project exploring ways through which we can understand the crying infant and its family, this study focuses on the experiences of fathers during labour and delivery of their infant. In a previous part of the project it was shown that fathers' negative experiences during the childbirth were correlated with the amount of crying in the infant during the first months after birth. The aim of the present study was to explore and interpret the experiences that fathers reported in an interview when the infant was between six months and one year of age. A hundred and nine fathers were interviewed. The interviews, which took place in the families' homes and with both parents present, were carried out in dialogue form with open-ended questions. The results reveal that complications during the delivery were significantly correlated with the amount of crying in the infant. Feelings of helplessness, of guilt and that staff behaviour had been negative were more common in the group of fathers who experienced the delivery as a negative event. 'Locus of control' seems to be the most relevant concept.
The crying mfant: understandable only in a multidisciplinary perspective Wikander B, Theorell T. The crying infant: understandable only in a multidisciplinary perspective.
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