"They carried out a randomized crossover trial to see whether such babies could bounce back from pain following a heel lance blood test, which involves pricking the baby's heel to obtain a blood sample. The team asked mothers to hold their babies for 15 minutes prior to and throughout a heel lance procedure. On another occasion the same babies in the trial were treated as normal and simply swaddled in the prone position in the incubator before and after the procedure."

Wonderful study, but the fact that swaddling before and after was considered the NORMAL handling of the baby was disturbing.  Hopefully more studies like this will help make StS the norm.

winnie


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