Chelsea
My friend has a preemie baby whom she practices Kangaroo Care with. She said it helps her bond with her baby and has helped her breastfeed successfully. But what exactly is it? I've never heard of this before.
What are the benefits of it exactly?
Thank you everyone!!
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Its basically a certain amount of time spent in skin to skin contact with a baby, its getting more and more common nowadays for hospitals to request the mother do this, which is great.
I'll find a link that explains more.
The benefits of kangaroo care are numerous: The baby has a stable heart rate (no bradycardia), more regular breathing (a 75 percent decrease in apneic episodes), improved oxygen saturation levels, no cold stress, longer periods of sleep, more rapid weight gain, more rapid brain development, reduction of "purposeless" activity, decreased crying, longer periods of alertness, more successful breastfeeding episodes, and earlier hospital discharge. Benefits to the parents include "closure" over having a baby in NICU; feeling close to their babies (earlier bonding); having confidence that they can care for their baby, even better than hospital staff; gaining confidence that their baby is well cared for; and feeling in control—not to mention significantly decreased cost
During kangaroo care, a premature baby's overall growth rate increases. This is in part due to the baby's ability to sleep, thus conserving energy and putting caloric expenditure toward growth. According to Dr. Ludington, during the last six weeks of pregnancy, babies sleep twenty to twenty-two hours per day. In a typical NICU, however, they spend less than two hours total in deep, quiet sleep. Most of that comes in ten or twenty second snatches. With kangaroo care, the infant typically snuggles into the breast and is deeply asleep within just a few minutes. These babies gain weight faster than their non-kangarooed counterparts, and it is interesting to note that they usually do not lose any of their birthweight
http://www.instinctiveparenting.com/flex/kangaroo_care_why_does_it_work/79/1
--- I do this all the time with my daughter, she's 4 months, so its not for any other reason except its nice, and she likes it.
Its basically a certain amount of time spent in skin to skin contact with a baby, its getting more and more common nowadays for hospitals to request the mother do this, which is great.
I'll find a link that explains more.
The benefits of kangaroo care are numerous: The baby has a stable heart rate (no bradycardia), more regular breathing (a 75 percent decrease in apneic episodes), improved oxygen saturation levels, no cold stress, longer periods of sleep, more rapid weight gain, more rapid brain development, reduction of "purposeless" activity, decreased crying, longer periods of alertness, more successful breastfeeding episodes, and earlier hospital discharge. Benefits to the parents include "closure" over having a baby in NICU; feeling close to their babies (earlier bonding); having confidence that they can care for their baby, even better than hospital staff; gaining confidence that their baby is well cared for; and feeling in control—not to mention significantly decreased cost
During kangaroo care, a premature baby's overall growth rate increases. This is in part due to the baby's ability to sleep, thus conserving energy and putting caloric expenditure toward growth. According to Dr. Ludington, during the last six weeks of pregnancy, babies sleep twenty to twenty-two hours per day. In a typical NICU, however, they spend less than two hours total in deep, quiet sleep. Most of that comes in ten or twenty second snatches. With kangaroo care, the infant typically snuggles into the breast and is deeply asleep within just a few minutes. These babies gain weight faster than their non-kangarooed counterparts, and it is interesting to note that they usually do not lose any of their birthweight
http://www.instinctiveparenting.com/flex/kangaroo_care_why_does_it_work/79/1
--- I do this all the time with my daughter, she's 4 months, so its not for any other reason except its nice, and she likes it.
Anybody have an experience with premature babies?
Gmoney
My wife just gave birth to our 9 week premature son. 4.4 lbs He has a grade 1 IVH, which is apparently fairly common in preemies. If anybody would like to share their story I would like to hear it.. good or bad.
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I gave birth to my first son three years ago at 33 weeks. 5lbs 2oz. My second arrived at 27. 2 lbs even. It is a very emotional and difficult rollar coaster. I am lucky to have such a great NICU staff. Braegan came home after 15 days. Brodie was in the NICU from August 21 to December 23. It was excruciating seeing them so tiny and sick. Brodie had a grade 2 bleed and collapsed lungs. He was on the vent for 2 months before he was weaned only to go back with an infection at 3 months. He is our miracle. He came home on oxygen and an apnea monitor at 4lbs 12oz. He still has oxygen at night at 11 months.
Your experience will be much more similar to Braegan's. He was on oxygen via nasal cpap for a few days. He had jaundice, and some eye issues. His biggest hurdle was learning how to eat. Premies seem to just lay there. They tell you to plan on them coming home on their due date and anything before is awesome. One day it just seemed like he work up and realized he was a baby and started eating and came home a day and a half later. He is now a perfectly healthy and normal sized three year old.
My advice to you is get as informed as possible. Read and ask questions. If something is happening to your baby you don't understand keep asking questions until you do understand. Get as involved as possible with your babies cares. Let the nurses know you want to be the one to bath, change, and feed your child (if possible and sometimes it isn't.) Advocate for your child, kangaroo care is amazing. (Also known as skin to skin.) The NICU is a busy and scary place, especially if you have no medical training. Most hospitals allow you to request primary nurses to care for him while they are on shift. Don't be afraid to speak up if something makes you uncomfortable. Most importantly take care of your selves. Cry if you need to, and take breaks. Although you want to be with your child constantly know that in a very short time he will be coming home full time. Preemies are very demanding. Get the rest now while you can so you are equipped to handle them when they get home. Don't feel guilty, take advantage of the super qualified and expensive babysitters.
Remember it is no bodies fault when a baby is born early. It just happens sometimes. Now when I see a premie my heart melts. Best of luck!
I gave birth to my first son three years ago at 33 weeks. 5lbs 2oz. My second arrived at 27. 2 lbs even. It is a very emotional and difficult rollar coaster. I am lucky to have such a great NICU staff. Braegan came home after 15 days. Brodie was in the NICU from August 21 to December 23. It was excruciating seeing them so tiny and sick. Brodie had a grade 2 bleed and collapsed lungs. He was on the vent for 2 months before he was weaned only to go back with an infection at 3 months. He is our miracle. He came home on oxygen and an apnea monitor at 4lbs 12oz. He still has oxygen at night at 11 months.
Your experience will be much more similar to Braegan's. He was on oxygen via nasal cpap for a few days. He had jaundice, and some eye issues. His biggest hurdle was learning how to eat. Premies seem to just lay there. They tell you to plan on them coming home on their due date and anything before is awesome. One day it just seemed like he work up and realized he was a baby and started eating and came home a day and a half later. He is now a perfectly healthy and normal sized three year old.
My advice to you is get as informed as possible. Read and ask questions. If something is happening to your baby you don't understand keep asking questions until you do understand. Get as involved as possible with your babies cares. Let the nurses know you want to be the one to bath, change, and feed your child (if possible and sometimes it isn't.) Advocate for your child, kangaroo care is amazing. (Also known as skin to skin.) The NICU is a busy and scary place, especially if you have no medical training. Most hospitals allow you to request primary nurses to care for him while they are on shift. Don't be afraid to speak up if something makes you uncomfortable. Most importantly take care of your selves. Cry if you need to, and take breaks. Although you want to be with your child constantly know that in a very short time he will be coming home full time. Preemies are very demanding. Get the rest now while you can so you are equipped to handle them when they get home. Don't feel guilty, take advantage of the super qualified and expensive babysitters.
Remember it is no bodies fault when a baby is born early. It just happens sometimes. Now when I see a premie my heart melts. Best of luck!
Does physical contact harm a premature baby?
Noel S
Im writting a paper about pre-mature babies and wanted to know should physical contact be avoided when dealing with a premature baby. Please help ASAP.
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No, you're supposed to hold them close to your skin. It is called Kangaroo Care. Here's a link: http://www.prematurity.org/baby/kangaroo.html
No, you're supposed to hold them close to your skin. It is called Kangaroo Care. Here's a link: http://www.prematurity.org/baby/kangaroo.html
A premature baby lacks adipose tissue and its body is large compared to volume. How would he regulate his temp?
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Kangaroo care- skin to skin with his mother or another caregiver.
Kangaroo care- skin to skin with his mother or another caregiver.
What is the Kangaroo method?
berta44
I have been hearing a child rearing technique that I honestly don't know what it means.
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The method is called Kangaroo care. It is when your baby is held skin to skin contact with the parent. Take off your shirt and let the baby be naked (with diaper on ofcourse) and let the baby sleep on your bare skin . I know this because I have had 2 premature babies and it works best for them!!!
The method is called Kangaroo care. It is when your baby is held skin to skin contact with the parent. Take off your shirt and let the baby be naked (with diaper on ofcourse) and let the baby sleep on your bare skin . I know this because I have had 2 premature babies and it works best for them!!!
Kangaroo care in the hospital?
Sammmantha
I wanted to get a little more information on kangaroo care. Do you have to tell your doctor or the nurses that you want to do this or will they automatically do it? what are the benefits? and any other information you can think of if you have done this yourself.
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it is highly recommended for premature babies or underweight babies - helps them grow faster and helps with breastfeeding, premature infants often have a hard time starting breastfeeding. it has plenty of benefits such as easing the baby's anxiety and making them comfortable, as well as crucial bonding with mom, bonding can be interrupted when a baby must stay in the nicu.
most hospitals in america do not routinely suggest it, but im sure you could request it and work it out with the NICU staff. in some cases, if the baby is very very sick, and needs a ton of tubes and things attached to him, the nicu may say you cannot hold the baby until he/she is more stable and some of the tubes can be removed... it is really sad, but sometimes those medical interventions are more important to helping the baby survive than it is for him to have skin to skin with mom. so hopefully the hospital allows you to do skin to skin if the baby is stable enough.
if you have a healthy, full term baby, there is not really a need for around the clock kangarooing, however, lots of skin to skin time with them is good for any baby, especially for great bonding, great breastfeeding, and overall keeping the baby comfortable and anxiety free.
This girl in my nursing school program shared that she delivered her baby at 24 weeks, baby had tons of complications including a brain bleed, and she participated in kangaroo care, and by the time the baby was ready to leave the nicu he had a very good outcome and was overall doing just fine.
it is highly recommended for premature babies or underweight babies - helps them grow faster and helps with breastfeeding, premature infants often have a hard time starting breastfeeding. it has plenty of benefits such as easing the baby's anxiety and making them comfortable, as well as crucial bonding with mom, bonding can be interrupted when a baby must stay in the nicu.
most hospitals in america do not routinely suggest it, but im sure you could request it and work it out with the NICU staff. in some cases, if the baby is very very sick, and needs a ton of tubes and things attached to him, the nicu may say you cannot hold the baby until he/she is more stable and some of the tubes can be removed... it is really sad, but sometimes those medical interventions are more important to helping the baby survive than it is for him to have skin to skin with mom. so hopefully the hospital allows you to do skin to skin if the baby is stable enough.
if you have a healthy, full term baby, there is not really a need for around the clock kangarooing, however, lots of skin to skin time with them is good for any baby, especially for great bonding, great breastfeeding, and overall keeping the baby comfortable and anxiety free.
This girl in my nursing school program shared that she delivered her baby at 24 weeks, baby had tons of complications including a brain bleed, and she participated in kangaroo care, and by the time the baby was ready to leave the nicu he had a very good outcome and was overall doing just fine.
please help me with this traduction. can you correct the sentence?
Patt
please corret these:
" i visit families with kangaroo babies premature babies, i explain them about kangaroo baby care.
i visit some familes and company to do educational activies.
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I visited families with premature kangaroo babies and explained to them how to care for the babies.
I visited companies and families and worked on educational activities.
I visited families with premature kangaroo babies and explained to them how to care for the babies.
I visited companies and families and worked on educational activities.
Premature babies are especially likely to gain weight if stimulated by?
maricela
a) sound and music
b)light and colors
c) movement and acceleration
d) touch and massages
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D. Lots of current research has shown that babies who spend more time skin to skin (or kangaroo care) with their parents have an increase in weight gain compared to children who do not receive skin to skin care.
D. Lots of current research has shown that babies who spend more time skin to skin (or kangaroo care) with their parents have an increase in weight gain compared to children who do not receive skin to skin care.
Question For Those Who Had Extremely Premature Babies?
nurseratch
In May I gave birth to my twin daughters. They were 25 weeks gestation when I had them. From the beginning, the nurses and doctors encouraged Kangaroo care/ skin to skin contact to promote bonding. They're now home and are happy only when being carried. It's extremely difficult to put them down for a nap because the minute they hit the crib, they realize they're not being carried and start crying. The bouncers and swings are of no use. I hope this is a phase. Just wondering if anyone else w/extremely premature babies had this problem in the beginning. Thanks.
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They might have colic. My son had colic and he was the same way. i couldn't put him down for nothing. I ended up buying the thing you can carry them around in... kinda like a backpack but it held the baby in the front. sorry I forget what it is called. How long has it been going on for? Have you talked to a doctor about it?
They might have colic. My son had colic and he was the same way. i couldn't put him down for nothing. I ended up buying the thing you can carry them around in... kinda like a backpack but it held the baby in the front. sorry I forget what it is called. How long has it been going on for? Have you talked to a doctor about it?
17 and need help, new baby twins?
Samantha
I am set to give birth in approx 1 week, I am having the twins in a hospital. I know they provide breast feeding centres and things like that. But I dont have an appt till wednesday next week and am stressing! I am having a vaginal birth (if no complications arise) I was wondering if the skin to skin contact would help my babies latch on with breast feeding or if it really does make a bond with myself and the babies. Seeing as we have two babies the doctors have said if its medically possible at the time my partner can take one of our daughters when she comes out for skin to skin while im giving birth to the other. Is this a good idea? And what are some other ways to help establish breast feeding? I know they will show me when im in there, I would just like an insight on it and to hear other peoples stories. Thank you in advance for reading!
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Babies benefit greatly from skin-to-skin contact, especially if born premature. In fact, in much of the world, "kangaroo" babywearing (where baby is strapped to mom or dad or other caretaker the majority of the time) is standard care for preemies. Premature babies who have that constant skin-to-skin contact grow faster and have fewer health problems than preemies kept mostly in incubators.
As far as breastfeeding goes, don't get discouraged if it doesn't happen perfectly right away. As a new mom you'll have to learn how to ensure proper latch-on and recognize cues for when the babies are hungry or full or aren't getting quite enough, and each baby will have to learn the find art of latching and sucking and how to stay awake the whole time... it's not easy! And some babies who are born early can't latch and suck quite yet, in which case there are ways of dealing with that. One way to pump (and pump, and pump!) and put baby to the breast, but thread in a feeding tube connected to a syringe until she's strong enough to suck and swallow on her own.
Hopefully your hospital will have a good lactation consultant, but if they don't then it's a good idea to find one to work with, especially with twins, and especially if they're born early. A lot of moms give up on breast feeding simply because they had no one to help them with problems that arose, and then assumed they "couldn't" breastfeed even though they probably could have. But even if your twins never quite get the hang of feeding from the breast (a friend of mine had twins at 35 weeks, and one of them never mastered latching), you can always pump and give them breastmilk at least sometimes. In the end, what really matters is that they get fed... if you can do it yourself, that's great! But if formula ends up being the answer, that's perfectly fine, too.
Babies benefit greatly from skin-to-skin contact, especially if born premature. In fact, in much of the world, "kangaroo" babywearing (where baby is strapped to mom or dad or other caretaker the majority of the time) is standard care for preemies. Premature babies who have that constant skin-to-skin contact grow faster and have fewer health problems than preemies kept mostly in incubators.
As far as breastfeeding goes, don't get discouraged if it doesn't happen perfectly right away. As a new mom you'll have to learn how to ensure proper latch-on and recognize cues for when the babies are hungry or full or aren't getting quite enough, and each baby will have to learn the find art of latching and sucking and how to stay awake the whole time... it's not easy! And some babies who are born early can't latch and suck quite yet, in which case there are ways of dealing with that. One way to pump (and pump, and pump!) and put baby to the breast, but thread in a feeding tube connected to a syringe until she's strong enough to suck and swallow on her own.
Hopefully your hospital will have a good lactation consultant, but if they don't then it's a good idea to find one to work with, especially with twins, and especially if they're born early. A lot of moms give up on breast feeding simply because they had no one to help them with problems that arose, and then assumed they "couldn't" breastfeed even though they probably could have. But even if your twins never quite get the hang of feeding from the breast (a friend of mine had twins at 35 weeks, and one of them never mastered latching), you can always pump and give them breastmilk at least sometimes. In the end, what really matters is that they get fed... if you can do it yourself, that's great! But if formula ends up being the answer, that's perfectly fine, too.
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