Human touch can change everything.
This preterm baby required a ventilator support and was placed on his father’s chest for a skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth while the mother was still recovering from the cesarean delivery.
This is called a Kangaroo care, a manner in which a new baby is welcomed into the world during the first hours after birth may have short- and long-term consequences. There is good evidence that preterm newborns who are placed skin to skin with their mothers or even fathers immediately after birth make the transition from fetal to newborn life with greater respiratory, temperature, and glucose stability and significantly less crying indicating decreased stress.
Positive psychological responses were also found in parents of intubated preterm infants, they exhibited more caring behaviours and developed a more sensitive approach to their infants.
The babies do well generally.
