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The Synactive Theory is the foundation of both: 1) the Assessment of Preterm Infants’ Behavior (APIB), [3] [4] a standardized comprehensive newborn test, and 2) the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP), [5] which is the care and intervention approach, that focuses on each infant's behavioral cues (e.g ...
In the 2003 WHO Kangaroo Mother Care practical guide, [1] KMC is defined as a "powerful, easy-to-use method to promote the health and well-being of infants born preterm as well as full-term", with its key components being: Early, continuous, and prolonged SSC between the mother and the baby; Exclusive breastfeeding (ideally);
Neonatology and NICUs have greatly increased the survival of very low birth-weight and extremely premature infants. In the era before NICUs, infants of birth weight less than 1,400 grams (3.1 pounds), usually about 30 weeks gestation, rarely survived. Today, infants of 500 grams (1.1 pounds) at 26 weeks have a fair chance of survival.
Such efforts, however, have not reduced the incidence of preterm birth. Increasingly primary interventions that are directed at all women, and secondary intervention that reduce existing risks are looked upon as measures that need to be developed and implemented to prevent the health problems of premature infants and children. [95]
These evidence-based guidelines cover topics like fetal heart rate monitoring, labor induction, neonatal skin care, [4] care of the late preterm infant, [5] breastfeeding, HPV counseling, neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, nursing staffing, [6] and care of the patient in the second stage of labor.
Besides these theories about prenatal psychology deMause also developed approaches in the field of psychohistory – a system of cultural psychological assumptions, which explain historical processes and phenomenons by using psychological theories. Especially aspects of childhood history and prenatal psychology play an important role.
The bill would include as activities under such projects programs to test and evaluate various strategies to provide information and education to health care providers and the public on: (1) the core risk factors for preterm labor and delivery, medically indicated deliveries before full term, (2) the importance of preconception and prenatal ...
Infants are altricial and are fully dependent on their mothers or an adult caretaker for an extended period of time. [10] Breastfeeding is the recommended method of feeding by all major infant health organizations. [11] If breastfeeding is not possible or desired, bottle feeding is done with expressed breast-milk or with infant formula.