Bonding in neonatal intensive care units: Experiences of extremely preterm infants' mothers.

CONCLUSIONS: The bonding with extremely preterm infants is interrupted after giving birth. The maternal emotional state and the environment of the neonatal intensive care unit limit its development. Nursing care can facilitate mother-infant bonding by encouraging communication, participation in care, massaging or breastfeeding.
PMID: 29191725 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Women Birth - November 27, 2017 Category: Midwifery Authors: Fernández Medina IM, Granero-Molina J, Fernández-Sola C, Hernández-Padilla JM, Camacho Ávila M, López Rodríguez MDM Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research