BABIES DEPENDENT ON OPIOIDS NEED TOUCH, NOT TECH
A physician in Kansas has worked for years to tackle infant mortality. She often treats newborns in a high-tech Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with intricate things whirring and beeping. That, she says, is not the place for a baby like Lili. Lili’s mom, Victoria, used heroin for the first two trimesters of her pregnancy, […]
Skin-to-Skin Contact With Infant in the Neonatal Unit Decreases Maternal Stress Levels
Research shows that stable parent-infant bonds are fundamental to healthy child development. For parents of babies born prematurely or with special medical needs, this early bonding can be interrupted by the complex medical care required in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). However, an ongoing study conducted at a large metropolitan NICU shows that a […]