Promoting Paternal Kangaroo Care

These past couple of weeks working on the Mother Baby Care Unit have provided me with many opportunities to reflect on the care that I have be able to provide to each of my patients. In particular, one encounter that I found myself deeply reflecting on involved a situation in which I was assisting a patient who was struggling to breastfeed her daughter. For confidentiality purposes, this patient will be referred to as Rosie and her daughter will be referred to as Emily.

After the delivery, the heat from the mom’s body can warm the baby and maintains the baby’s body temperature. For instance, when nursing students were at the operating room at Saint Peter’s Hospital during the C-section delivery, as soon as the baby was out, the doctor placed the newborn on the mother’s chest. When the mother was alert and awake during the C-section made it possible for the baby to stay on her chest on the first hours after the birth. It was one of the most beautiful moments in life. Nevertheless, there was another C-section birth of diabetic mother. She was not fully awake during the C-section and the doctor only did not promote skin-to-skin mother and the newborn. The doctors and nurses at Saint Peter’s Hospital support and encourage skin-to-skin for mother and newborn right after the birth if there is no complication on mother or baby or when the condition is possible. Saint Peter’s Hospital has policy for vaginal delivery, “all infants that meet the criteria for initiate skin-to-skin care shall have skin-to-skin care implemented as the standard of care immediately after birth and as needed thereafter regardless of feeding preference”. They promote skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby immediately after delivery. However, mothers and babies have a physiologic need to be together during the minutes, hours, and days following birth, and this time together significantly improves maternal and newborn outcomes.

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.

The [DH] Toolkit (2009) outlines a commission framework to aid with strategic development of neonatal service that highlights the need to ensure the babies and families are the focus during their pathway of care given. The following care services should be commissioned as a part of neonatal care, these include transfer services, cot location services as well as a maternity bed (DH, 2009). Family centred care throughout their stay and ongoing into community with follow up services and a range of support services throughout and post care (Smith & Coleman, 2010). The DH toolkit can be used to a strategic level with regional and network planning as well as receiving support from commissioners. The toolkit is designed to support the delivery in

69-70), the first important thing for her is to avoid the consumption of alcohol, smoking, and drugs. She will need to follow a healthy diet that includes folic acid which is “vital to prenatal development” (p.74). Furthermore, she will need to avoid stress, anxiety and keep a stable mental health. There are several effective ways to care for LBW babies, as stated by Boyd, Johnson & Bee (2018), at birth LBW babies might not be able to suck and be breastfed by their mothers and doctors may use intravenous feeding or insert a tube in the esophagus or stomach to help the baby get the nutrients they he/she needs. Parents response to the LBW baby is crucial and may contribute to how fast the baby develops. The Kangaroo care or skin-to-skin is another way to help LBW babies develop by letting parents hold them for long times (pp. 102-103). Women should abstain completely from smoking and drinking throughout the pregnancy, the most critical period is the first

Within every change there are issues that will need to be resolved, and that is why this paper discussed various strategies to overcome those challenges. Kangaroo Mother Care helps improve the health of preterm infants in the NICU, along with their parents. That is why it is crucial to implement the change, and start making a different in these infant’s

Take a second to imagine you are a father, who has an infant admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for the first time. How are you feeling? Afraid? Confused, even? If your baby is admitted to the NICU, your first question probably will be: What is this place? With equipment intended for infants and medical staff specially qualified in newborn care, the NICU is an intensive care unit created for sick newborns who require specialized treatment. A common example for parent’s

Parents of premature infants are also provided the opportunity to participate in Kangaroo Care – a form of skin-to-skin contact that encourages bonding, interaction and cuddling between parents and small babies. In addition to the emotional and psychological benefits of Kangaroo Care, this technique encourages breastfeeding, helps baby to sleep better and contributes to being released from hospital earlier. At Sharp Mary Birch’s hospital the NICU has a multidisciplinary team which consists of lactation specialists, neonatal nurse practitioners, nurses, nutritionists, occupational and physical therapists, physicians, respiratory care practitioners and social workers. Whether a baby was born prematurely is with other complications, this specialty care unit is a place where babies can grow, heal, and receive the highest quality medical care and attention. The Maternal Infant Services (MIS) Unit at Sharp Mary Birch provides care for women after their delivery of their babies. They monitor the mothers and babies physical recoveries and provide education and practice in caring for the new baby. Sharp Mary Birch has some of the best combination of technology, medical services and the healing arts programs for their patients, which also include cord blood banking. Sharp HealthCare has partnered

NICU infants are vulnerable to developmental delays, research has shown parents of NICU patients to undergo more stress and anxiety than parents of healthy infants, and the emotional and developmental needs of siblings of NICU patients are often overlooked (Smith, Desai, Sira, & Engelke, 2014, p. 5-6). Clinical NICU team members are devoted to the successful physical care of NICU infants, but the nature of this intensive care creates a gap formed by the social, emotional, and developmental needs of NICU patients and families that medical professionals are often unable to meet. “…Parents are worried and stressed and need information and empathy from nurses and doctors as well as encouragement and support in their role as parents,” (Wigert, Dellenmark, & Bry, 2013, p. 12). Further, the expectation of a new brother or sister snowballs into confusion for siblings of a NICU patient (Sandler, Robinson, & Carter, 2012, p. 1). And for those families struck by grief and bereavement from loss of a NICU infant, leaving the hospital with less than you imagined requires an entirely other process of coping. CCLSs can purposefully fill this gap as integrated members of the NICU team as experts in psychosocial and developmental care by providing parental and sibling education, infant developmental assessments, and emotional and bereavement support (Smith et al., 2014, p.

Nearly 400,000 infants are admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) each year. This can be an intensely overwhelming, stressful, and emotionally draining experience for the families and, especially the parents, of the infants requiring care in the NICU. With the help of an emerging care delivery model known as family centered care, health care providers can ease some of the stress during a NICU stay by involving the parents in the cares of their infant. Basic ideas of family centered care include: parental involvement in the cares of their

There are seven main principles in the Neonatal Integrative Developmental Care Model: a healing environment, partnership with family, positioning and handling, safeguarding sleep, minimizing stress and pain, protecting skin, and optimizing nutrition. These seven measures are used to provide optimal health care, both long term and short term, for premature infants. One of the most important elements of healing for premature infants is skin to skin contact. The Neonatal Integrative Developmental Care Model includes neuroprotective techniques to produce a combination of neurological, physical, and emotional development and avoid the development of disabilities. Parents are able to restore their parent-infant attachment, in this model, which helps both infants and parents health. NICU staff are not taught the neuroprotective skills during their training but have to be further educated. In order to ensure an optimal NICU, all NICU staff should be taught these skills during their training. Developmentally supportive care should be seen as a necessity not as an option. Optimal health care for premature infants also depends on the leadership and passion of NICU staff. There needs to be role model staff members that will train and set a high standard for other NICU member. (Altimier, L., & Phillips, R.

Evidence has shown what mothers and newborns need after birth, each other. There are many opportunities for skin-to-skin care and breastfeeding. Nurses and healthcare professionals must support the physiological need that mothers and newborns have for each other after the birthing process. It is crucial that the nurses recognize the short- and long­term health benefits for the mothers and newborns that result from skin-to-skin care. Therefore, as healthcare professionals it is important to educate the patients and prevent separation of a mother and her newborn as a healthy birth

Kangaroo Mother Care is a method of holding an infant in a certain position to help improve health. Although there are many articles supporting this statement, a literature review is still necessary to show credibility. This paper will provide an overview on the various research articles by explaining the supportive measures for the PICOT, comparing and contrasting the articles, and analyzing the evidence found regarding the study.

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

How does communication can help people in medical field? Does it serve patients and health staffs as many as other significant factors such as knowledge and experience? There is no doubt communication plays an important role in treatment procedures. For example, in NICU, neonatal intensive care unit, communication among parents and health care providers and also communication between care unite staffs has a tremendous effect in the successful treatment. Based on a research in the University of California, “communication between parents and their baby’s principal medical care provider is important in NICU setting” (Weiss et Goldlust, Vaucher, 1). In addition, effective interaction can reduce both parents’ stress and medical errors, and also it is associated with enhance the quality of treatment; for instance SSC and KMC which are defined as “skin to skin care” and “kangaroo mother care”, are kind of communication that increase binding among mothers and