Dear Women
I have a specific question to those of you that work in NICU - I am very interested in hearing your 
output.
One of my most favorite "issues" is Skin to Skin - in different wards of my 
hosptital.
My  experience in my INCU is this: if the baby is young and small  and needy 
enough to be in the incubator, then Kangaroo CAre is explained to the 
mother  - and done - perhaps not early enough, long enough and often enough - 
a lot depends of course on the mother /parents themselves - though I think 
MORE encouragement on behalf of the staff would increase the Percentage that 
really take advantage of KC. BUT - the day the baby has clothes put on him 
and taken out of the incubator and put into an open crib ( OR : if the baby is born not needy of 
incubator  at all )  no more S2S ! 
Is that your experience too?  The nurses say that the mothers are so happy 
that the babies have  clothing on and have "graduated" to a new stage, that 
they have no desire to take off baby's shirt ( or turn it around so that 
the open part is in the front, as we do/ or could do  in my hospital), 
open their own blouses and put them S2S, - not the same as in KC - more like S2S in the postpartum ward...
Some of these babies of course are still only 32/33/34 weeks, some still not breastfeeding .. I KNOW ALL THE ADVANTAGES OF S2S at this age  - and I just don't see it done - and I wondered what the situation is in your hospitals.
Is there anyone who would like to share with me efforts that have been made to promote S2S among  staff ( to encourage it) and mothers - to do it...
Any answers may be written to the group or to me privately:   [log in to unmask]     
Most appreciatively
Leslie




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