Recent behavioral and physiologic observations of infants and mothers have shown them ready to begin interacting in the first minutes of life. Included among these findings are the newborn infant's ability to crawl toward the breast to initiate suckling and mother-infant thermoregulation. The attachment felt between mother and infant may be biochemically modulated through oxytocin; encouraging ...

This quasi-experimental study was conducted in Shiraz, the Islamic Republic of Iran, on 120 pairs of mothers and infants in a maternity hospital that had a rooming-in programme. All 59 mothers in the study group received breastfeeding education, face-to-face, after delivery and during follow-up for 4 months in the mother and child health (MCH) centre or in their homes; the remaining 61 mothers ...

Although sleep complaints during pediatric hospitalization are common, few studies have examined different aspects of sleep or the impact of pediatric hospitalization on parent sleep. This study examined multiple aspects of sleep for 72 non-intensive care pediatric inpatients and 58 rooming-in parents who completed a self-report survey of sleep at home and in the hospital, and sleep disturbance...

AIMS Breastfeeding significantly benefits mothers and infants. We aimed to identify the determinants of its successful initiation. METHODS A retrospective study of 1893 mothers delivering healthy term singletons at a Swiss university hospital from 1/2008 to 3/2009 determined the associations between multiple breastfeeding and early postpartum parameters by univariate and multiple regression a...

The aim of the present study was to analyze the effect of operating room (OR) care combined with home care on postoperative rehabilitation and prognosis of gastric cancer patients with low PTEN gene expression. Ninety-six gastric cancer patients with low PTEN gene expression, who underwent surgical treatment in our hospital were recruited. PTEN expression was measured by semi-quantitative polym...

Introduction: at the beginning and establishment of breastfeeding, adequate care routines are essential, such as its early initiation skin-to-skin contact, which implies need to facilitate joint accommodation mother with newborn in immediate postpartum period, regardless type delivery. Objective: analyze effects rooming-in after a cesarean section on breastfeeding rates hospital discharge maint...

which the authors seek to cover in a small sized book of some 250 pages. In general this book is undistinguished from a number of others now available for those of the public who wish to be informed on these matters. Certain subjects which these authors discuss show that they lack familiarity with the writings of many leaders in obstetrics in the English-speaking world. I refer to those portion...