Weight gain in newborns submitted to skin-to-skin contact

Souza, Ana Karine da Costa Monteiro; Tavares, Ana Caroline Mendes; Carvalho, Daiany Gabriela de Lima; Araújo, Viviane Castro de

doi:10.1590/1982-021620182018317

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“…2,13 A Brazilian study evidenced that skin-toskin contact influences positively in weight gain and in the time of hospitalization of newborns. 22 These measures impact directly on the humanization process of care and act as technological interventions focused on the recovery and safety of the low weight PN. Thus, in order to make this process effective, the institution must be concerned with the relational and structural environment of the maternalinfant units.…”

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Kangaroo method: perceptions on knowledge, potencialities and barriers among nurses

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Objective: To analyze the knowledge, potentialities and barriers related to the implantation of the Kangaroo Method in the perception of nurses who work in the maternal-infant units of a school hospital. Method: An exploratory-descriptive research with a qualitative approach, guided by the Policy of Humanized Attention to the Low Weight Newborn, Kangaroo Method. Held between January and March 2018, with eight nurses from a maternal-infant unit. Data was collected between January and March 2018, through semi-structured interviews, transcribed and submitted to Thematic Content Analysis associated with Atlas Ti version eight resources. Results: Three categories emerged: Barriers to the development of the Kangaroo Method; Knowledge about the Kangaroo Method; and Potentialities of the Kangaroo Method. Conclusions and implications for practice: The nurses' speeches revealed partial knowledge, lack of practical experience and barriers related to team resistance and lack of institutional support, although they considered the method with potential benefits to provide bonding and indicate continuing education as a necessary strategy for its implementation.

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Kangaroo method: perceptions on knowledge, potencialities and barriers among nurses

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“…(7) Though KMC is strongly advocated for LBW infants, all newborns irrespective of prematurity, birth weight and socio-economic status have been found to benefit from the practice. (8,9) Yet, KMC is currently not actively encouraged for full-term healthy newborns, aside from the initial skin to skin contact immediately following birth. National Health Mission (NHM), Government of India, initiated India Newborn Action Plan (INAP), 2014 with KMC as one of the strategies to achieve 'single digit neonatal mortality rate' by 2030.…”

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Awareness and Experience of Kangaroo Mother Care for full term newborns: An interventional study at a rural maternity hospital in south Karnataka

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Varghese

Johnson

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Indian J Community Health

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Background: Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is early, continuous and prolonged skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby, with exclusive breastfeeding. Besides preterm and low birth weight babies, even full-term healthy newborns benefit from KMC. Objective: to assess awareness and experience of KMC for full-term newborns among newly delivered mothers in a rural maternity hospital. Methods: Interventional study with interview schedule to capture awareness of KMC (25 scored items). After one hour of practicing KMC, post-intervention assessment of KMC experience (23 scored items) was done. Bivariate analysis performed to associate awareness and experience of KMC with socio-demographic and obstetric variables. Results: The 100 mothers in our study had low median KMC awareness score of 4(IQR=2,8) and were unaware of benefits of KMC. Median KMC experience score was 21(IQR=19,22), indicating highly positive experience. Mothers reported feeling happy or relaxed, found it easier to breastfeed, easy to practice KMC, and wanted to continue KMC at home. Mothers with caesarean section were more likely to experience abdominal or back pain during KMC (P=0.037) and mothers with previous abortion/stillbirth were more likely to have fear of suffocating the baby during KMC (P=0.005). Conclusion: Though awareness of KMC was found to be low, overall experience of KMC was very positive. Mothers should be educated about benefits of KMC and given an opportunity to practice KMC in hospital. Full-term healthy newborns and their mothers should not be denied the numerous advantages of KMC. There is need to create KMC-friendly hospital culture and promote KMC for all newborns.

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Skin-to-skin contact and its effect on mothers’ postpartum psychological distress and their full-term neonate in Egypt

Sehmawy

Elaziz

Elwahed

et al. 2023

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

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Design A randomized controlled study was conducted on 400 mothers, who were divided into two groups: 200 mothers who applied skin-to-skin infant care (SSC) for at least 1 h daily for 12 weeks and 200 mothers who performed the usual mother–infant care. The mothers were recruited from the Obstetric Department of Al-Zahraa University Hospital in Cairo, Egypt. The enrolled mothers' infants were assessed for body weight. Sleep hours and frequency of breast milk feeding were evaluated by the mother during the day. All of the mothers who took part in the study were assessed for postoperative pain, wound healing, postpartum depression, anxiety, sleep quality and newborn maternal bonding. Results There was a significant increase in frequencies of breastfeeding and the body weight at 12 weeks’ postnatal age and also an increase in sleep hours in the infants who had SSC. The mothers who performed SSC had good sleep quality in comparison with those who performed the usual infant care; in addition, they had less postoperative pain intensity and proper wound healing apart from better maternal–infant bond, decreased anxiety and decreased depression frequency. Conclusion SSC was associated with better infant breastfeeding, increased sleep hours in infants and less postpartum psychological burden in mothers.

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Weight gain in newborns submitted to skin-to-skin contact

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Kangaroo method: perceptions on knowledge, potencialities and barriers among nurses

Kangaroo method: perceptions on knowledge, potencialities and barriers among nurses

Awareness and Experience of Kangaroo Mother Care for full term newborns: An interventional study at a rural maternity hospital in south Karnataka

Skin-to-skin contact and its effect on mothers’ postpartum psychological distress and their full-term neonate in Egypt

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