Introduction: Prematurely born infants often have developmental delays in multiple areas when compared to at term.  Neurodevelopmental supportive care techniques such as Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) or infant massage the potential affect infant’s outcome.  Evidence supports benefits of parent-administered terms premature infants’ growth, weight gain and length hospitalisation; however, effect on ...

OBJECTIVE To describe parent views on infant pain care and to explore relations between parents' experience of their infant's pain care and parental stress. DESIGN Descriptive, cross sectional survey. SETTING Nine neonatal units (196 parents) in the United Kingdom and two neonatal units in the United States (61 parents). PARTICIPANTS Parents of preterm and full term infants admitted to ho...

background: preterm infants need to be hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) and receive specific systematic care in order to survive. nonetheless, long hospital stay leads to parents’ separation from the infant and disturbance in the family life. it also has many undesirable effects on the infant. the present study aimed to determine the effect of family-centered empowerment ...

The neurohormone oxytocin (OT) is positively involved in the regulation of parenting and social bonding in mammals, and may thus also be important for the mediation of alloparental care. In cooperatively breeding marmosets, infants are raised in teamwork by parents and adult and sub-adult non-reproductive helpers (usually older siblings). Despite high intrinsic motivation, which may be mediated...