Kangaroo Care Paper

Infants and parents are biologically tuned to become attached to each other and this attachment promotes the baby's survival. In the United States, Kangaroo cares a method of skin to skin, contact in which a newborn has lied face down between the mother's breast for an hour or so at a time after birth. In Africa, the baby is raised in a caring family atmosphere where there is an extended family to take care of the babies. The mother caries baby on her back while working and spends time taking and playing with the baby. In Mongolia, the mother gets very less time to spend with the baby as she has to run errands and most of the times she has to work away from the baby. The social interaction is only during a family get-together for the baby. In America and Japan, the babies are taken to the park, shopping malls and the music classes for them to be social also the grandparents visit them often. The babies living in the countryside and tribe have less strange anxiety than children in the city like Tokyo and San Francisco. Secure attachment is when faced with a stressful situation and the caregiver effectively comforts the

Mothers and newborns have a physiologic need to be together during the first moment of birth. Interrupted skin-to-skin attachment between mothers and babies can be harmful and can negatively impact short and long term health outcomes and breastfeeding success. Evidence supports instant skin-to-skin care after the birth, vaginally and C-section, during and after cesarean surgery for all stable mothers and newborns will enhance limitless opportunities for care and breastfeeding. Skin-to-skin contact after delivery is golden opportunity. Many studies validate that mothers and babies should be skin-to-skin promptly after birth. Not only promotes healthier baby and successful breastfeeding outcome, it is also

Skin to skin contact in the delivery room and breastfeeding are best for mothers and infant. Skin to skin contact helps mothers become confident with their infants, decreases the mother’s anxiety toward motherhood, helps produce more breast milk, and helps them become aware of their infant’s cues, not to mention an incredible lifelong bonding experience. As for the infant’s benefits of skin to skin contact, it helps with temperature regulation, stabilization of the heart rate, control of the infant’s blood sugar, and helps with weight gain. When initiating immediate skin to skin contact, infants should be placed on their mother’s chest for instinctive skills. The infant begins to smell their mother’s breast and look at their mother, which

Special care and attention must be given to infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) because of their small size and the health complications they face. One particular challenge faced by health care professionals in the NICU is the management of pain for preterm babies. Preterm infants must undergo a wide range of tests, procedures, and, often, life-saving measures during their hospitalizations, which not only subjects them to pain, but pain-related stress and anxiety. This has an impact on the infants themselves, as well as on the family members and friends who are involved in their care (Smith, Steelfisher, Salhi, & Shen, 2012). The purpose of this paper is to examine the problem of pain management among preterm NICU patients and propose the implementation of kangaroo care as a pain management technique.

closeness with her newborn” (United Sates 3). With all of these proven health benefits, there is

Breastfeeding provides unique nutrients for the baby, protects from disease, has health benefits for the mother, and provides a unique bond between mother and baby.

The article “A Quality Improvement Project Focused on Women’s Perceptions of Skin-to-Skin Contact after Cesarean Birth” was written by Judith Moran-Peters, Cheryl Zauderer, Susan Goldman, Jennifer Baierlein, and April Smith. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to evaluate the implications of the unavailability of skin-to-skin contact following a cesarean birth and to identify perceptions of women who performed skin-to-skin contact after their second cesarean birth. The study also sought to compare cesarean birthing experiences, particularly in relation to the facilitation of breast-feeding, in which skin-to-skin contact was and was not present.

Kangaroo care as described by Dr. Susan Ludington, is more than just skin-to-skin contact. Kangaroo care is having the infant’s chest directly touching the mother’s chest (Ludington, 2014). Kangaroo care provides the opportunity for the baby to bond with whomever is providing the kangaroo care, mother or father usually (Ludington, 2014). When the mother is using kangaroo care with the infant, the infant is more likely to start breastfeeding, which is important shortly after birth so that the infant gets the first dose of breast milk which contains colostrum, which is thought to be the babies first immunization (Ludington, 2014). According to Kathleen Kuhn and Megan Kuhn, when using kangaroo care with a premature infant, nurses will help decide when the best time to hold the baby is. Some benefits of kangaroo care for the mother include a higher production of milk, the mother feeling closer to the baby, help with coping due to “the baby blues”, learning to respond to the baby’s needs, increased confidence for the mother, and the initiation of breastfeeding (Kuhn & Kuhn, 2011). Benefits for the baby include sleeping better, crying less, regulation of body temperature, the ability to move to an open crib sooner, better breathing, weight gain, preparation for breastfeeding, and more connection with the mother (Kuhn & Kuhn,

This hospital-based, prospective cohort study investigates how mother-infant-skin-to-skin contact after 3 hours of singleton births may result in exclusive breastfeeding success during the mother and baby’s hospital stay compared to those mother-infants who do not receive skin-to-skin contact three hours after birth. The title is appropriate and accurately portrays the study’s purpose and content. However, the title is quite lengthy. The reader can easily recognize from the title that the article investigates how early skin-to-skin mother-infant contact influences exclusive breastfeeding success during the mother and infant’s hospital stay. The key terms “exclusive breastfeeding”, “early skin-to-skin contact”, and “intrapartum variables” allows readers to easily access this article and similar articles in a library data base.

Kangaroo care is "a form of newborn care in which mothers (and sometimes fathers) rest their babies on their naked chest..." (Berger

Qualitative research differs from quantitative research fundamentally but their objectives and applications overlap in many ways. Based on the quantitative article “Healthcare providers’ perceptions of breastfeeding peer counselors in the neonatal intensive care unit” (Rossman, Engstrom, & Meier, 2012, p. 461) that focused on the perceptions and experiences of the healthcare professionals who work with the peer counselors in the NICU department, this provides an in-depth understanding and insight about the intended research. The data collection is through a private interview using an interview guide that are semi-structured and open-ended questions, healthcare providers who participated in the study were asked about their perceptions of the breastfeeding peer counselor program as well as their experiences in working with the peer counselors (Rossman, Engstrom, & Meier, 2012, p. 461). Data were analyzed using the framework approach which is “the diffusion of innovations theory” (Rossman et al., 2012, p. 462) that focuses on the characteristics of the new breastfeeding peer counselor program in the NICU department (Rossman et al., 2012, p. 462). And the framework approach starts deductively but also uses inductive analysis and analytic analysis (Rossman et al., 2012, p. 464). While the quantitative research “breastfeeding protects against acute gastroenteritis due to rotavirus in infants”

The nurse must be mindful of each intervention initiated and the possible benefits of the intervention against its potential harmful effects for both mother and fetus. Not providing basic comfort measures for the mother can cause serious physical and emotional problems and could lead to possible fatigue and feelings of failure from the mother. The priority of this nursing intervention is to provide the mother and fetus with the least discomfort as possible and

With preterm neonates (P), how effective is Kangaroo Care with the father (I) compared to Kangaroo Care with the mother (C) in reducing psychological and stress responses (O) while in the NICU(T)?

This report has a detailed explanation of how breastfeeding plays an important role from an economic perspective and the cost advantages and disadvantages of breastfeeding in Australia and other countries. It also evaluates the importance of breastfeeding and the benefits that a child gets through breastfeeding which are discussed in detail in the below sections. Data used in this report is collected from a pool of reliable sources which comprises of the government sources of different countries, scholars and institutions of high stature.

Newborns have shown to make greater advances in maturity when there is skin-to-skin contact, also known as Kangaroo Care. The benefits of Kangaroo Care coincide with the benefits of the actual mother’s milk. The benefits include; increasing the newborns system immunity, facilitates the parent to newborn bonding, maintains the physiological ability, and also optimizes breastfeeding (Shiau, Anderson, 1997). A quantitative study was done on Kangaroo Care in 1993 that shows during kangaroo care the sample group of newborns showed pulse, oxygen and respiratory rate all within normal limits (Gale, Frank & Lund, 1993). This is very important for newborn premature infants because respiration rate is a common issue as well as regulating temperature. If a newborn is skin-to-skin with their parent, the body heat from the parent will help the premature infant increase and maintain their own temperature.