Clinical studies have shown that greater humanization in the care of premature babies It favors both physical and neurological development.
Imagine moving from Mom's warm belly to a cold incubator in an intensive care ward. What a difference! Therefore, the least that can be done is to provide the baby, in addition to the necessary medical care, a cozy environment and a more sensitized treatment.
Some measures such as reducing baby's manipulation, avoiding overexposure to light and noise, and improving the child's postures inside the incubator to extend rest periods are included in the NIDCAP premature baby care program (Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program).
Regarding the postures to favor the rest of the child inside the incubator, today Eva tells us about the use of hammocks in Colombia that helps them relax and sleep more deeply accelerating their recovery.
This type of more "humanized" techniques, as well as the Mother Kangaroo method we have talked about several times, help to improve the brain function of prematurity and its neurological development by decreasing the days of respiratory assistance and, in the long run, its permanence in Hospital.
The strict imposition of schedules for parents to visit their child is absolutely contrary to the humane treatment of prematurity. It is proven that there is no skin-to-skin contact (we return to the kangaroo method) that helps children to establish an emotional bond with their parents, in addition to reducing pain, physiological changes and the risk of disease. Of course, all this greatly benefits the baby and reduces the anguish of the parents.
So those who invented the web camera for parents to visit their baby through the Internet could add less to technology and more to humanized care.
