background: hospitalization in neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) leads to a lot of stress and shock to the parents. nurses, as the primary sources of information, could play an important role in reducing their stress. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of educational program on the premature infants’ parental stress in nicu. methods: this double-blind randomized controlled tria...

During the last few years the care and management of premature infants has acquired additional importance, and has been more extensively studied in all civilized countries. This has been largely due to the widespread adoption of well-organized antenatal treatment, and considerably more inductions of labour are now performed in the interests of the mother or the child. Apart from the usual desir...

The number of COVID-19 cases, especially with pregnancy, remains a problem in the world and Indonesia. main clinical symptoms include fever (temperature >38oC), cough, shortness breath. In addition, it can be accompanied by fatigue, myalgia, gastrointestinal such as diarrhea, even recently found manifestations skin disorders. Skin pregnant patients are still rare condition. an early sign inf...

Adaptation to extrauterine life involves the newborn infant in a series of biological adjustments to a totally new set of environmental conditions. Prime among these is the accommodation to a thermal environment that, in all but the most tropical countries, represents a distinctly "cold" challenge. The failure to accommodate to this cold stress has historically been recognized as perhaps the ea...

The normal pregnant woman and the newborn infant both have raised hormonal iodine levels (Rose, Russell, and Starr, 1963; Pickering et al., 1958). The very early fetus has a low hormonal iodine which rises as gestation proceeds, but the level in premature babies is still lower than that of full-term infants (Andreoli and Robbins, 1962; Rose et al., 1963; Marks and Man, 1965). The serum protein-...