The term "rooming-in" refers to "a hospital arrangement for maternity patients wherein a mother and her newborn are cared for together in the same unit of space. However, its meaning reaches beyond physical facilities and signifies an attitude in maternal and infant care and a general plan of supportive parental education which are based on the recognition and understanding of the needs of each...

Background. Most information on newborn care practices in Uganda is from rural communities which may not be generalized to urban settings. Methods. A community based cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in the capital city of Uganda from February to May 2012. Quantitative and qualitative data on the newborn care practices of eligible mothers were collected. Results. Over 99% of the m...

Hospitalized preterm infants are exposed to stressful stimuli and early parental separation, which can undermine their long-term development mother-infant bonding. Family-centered music therapy enable positive interactions, mediated by maternal infant-directed singing. This study aimed investigate the effects of on infant’s signs engagement, namely Eye Opening (EO) Smiling (SM), vocalizations. ...

Background & aim: Women experience various changes in their transition into motherhood and feel stressed while facing new challenges in this period. High levels of stress may prevent mothers from realizing their maternal role. In this study, we aimed to explore the effects of training on the stress of primiparous mothers. Methods:In this quasi-experimental intervention, 100 pregnant women were ...

UNLABELLED The hallmark of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is the kangaroo position: the infant is cared for skin-to-skin vertically between the mother's breasts and below her clothes, 24 h/day, with father/substitute(s) participating as KMC providers. Intermittent KMC (for short periods once or a few times per day, for a variable number of days) is commonly employed in high-tech neonatal intensive ...

OBJECTIVE We adapted kangaroo mother care for immediate postnatal community-based application in rural Bangladesh, where the incidence of home delivery, low birth weight, and neonatal and infant mortality is high and neonatal intensive care is unavailable. This trial tested whether community-based kangaroo mother care reduces the overall neonatal mortality rate by 27.5%, infant mortality rate b...

This paper examines the theoretical and empirical roles of income poverty and race in the determination of infant mortality differentials in the United States. A basic model of the process of infant mortality is conceptualized, which outlines a theory of the influence of a variety of biological, social, and economic factors upon the risk of infant death. Using nationai data gathered in 1964-65,...

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common and debilitating mental health condition affecting many mothers worldwide. This review article aims to explore the complex effects of PPD on infants, focusing maternal care. The transition motherhood critical period characterized by numerous physical, psychological, social changes, making women vulnerable onset PPD. Consequently, can significantly impact ...

Background: Most primiparous women don’t have enough sense of competency, most of it being due to lack of experience. Maternal self efficacy-based training, have led to improved maternal-infant outcomes. Aim: : To determine the effect of self-efficacy education on maternal sense of competency of primiparous women in the infant care. Methods: In this clinical trial, 61 primiparous women were ran...