[Assistance to the healthy newborn infant. 1. Experience of a new model of nursery care]

Pediatr Med Chir. 1985 Mar-Apr;7(2):287-90.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

We propose an organizational model which provides proper assistance to the mother and newborn, promoting at the same time, an adequate structure for the child-parent relationship. We refer to the results obtained over a 2-year period, during which we gradually achieved a "rooming-in" situation and organized the assistance in the nursery to the newborns with minor pathology, and without substantial modifications either to structures or personnel. However providing a minimum of equipment and pediatrician and qualified paramedic personnel all the time. We noticed a statistically higher frequency of breastfeeding even after a time lapse (table 3), and a marked decrease of transfers to the neonatal pathology whit, especially among those neonates with minor pathology (tables 5 and 6). The fulfiment a direct connection with the family pediatrician and his services, through a complete and personalized exchange of informations, and a good degree of cooperation with the obstetrician, supported by the results discussed and evaluated together before (or him).

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Breast Feeding
  • Evaluation Studies as Topic
  • Humans
  • Infant Care / methods*
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Mother-Child Relations
  • Rooming-in Care / methods*
  • Rooming-in Care / organization & administration