Early Parental Touch and Preterm Infants

The Primacy of Work and Fathering Preterm Infants

“…16 Mothers and fathers interact differently with their preterm/high-risk infants and have different responses to the experience. Mothers provided more infant caregiving and intimate contact, such as touching and holding, in the NICU 22,23 and at home. [24][25][26][27] Fathers were more playful.…”

“…Unless one looks closely at the sample description, use of the word "parent" in the title does not ensure that fathers are represented. 23,[32][33][34][35] When findings are discussed by comparisons, the underlying assumption is that mothers are the gold standard. 36 According to Benner, "Defining men, women, and cultural groups in terms of what they are not gives an incoherent and often denigrating picture of what they are."…”

Adolescent Parenting in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

“…From the study by Harrison and Woods [31], there are insufficient numbers to compare adolescent mothers with adolescent fathers. Their results do suggest, however, that overall mothers and grandmothers provide more touch than fathers.…”

“…This could be attributed to differing conceptions of adolescence cross-culturally [61]. A significant number of the studies also exclude parents of infants with congenital abnormalities and/or critical illness [16,27,31,36,59]. Such variation in selection criteria limits comparability of studies and understanding of adolescent parenting in varying circumstances.…”

“…Medical records from 151 preterm infants admitted between 1997 and 1998 were reviewed. Harrison and Woods [31] United States 13e19…”