scholarly journals Effectiveness of Kangaroo Care for a Patient with Postpartum Depression and Comorbid Mother-Infant Bonding Disorder

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Youji Takubo ◽  
Takahiro Nemoto ◽  
Yohei Obata ◽  
Yoko Baba ◽  
Taiju Yamaguchi ◽  
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The presently reported patient was a 37-year-old married primipara with peripartum depression comorbid with bonding disorder. Care anxiety and a lack of affection towards her baby first appeared at around the time of delivery, and the patient developed major depression at one month after the birth of her healthy baby. At first, standard treatment for major depression including the use of antidepressants, electroconvulsive therapy, and supportive psychotherapy were provided. However, bonding problems appeared to impede and obstruct the amelioration of depression. Although treatment methods for bonding disorder have not yet been established, Kangaroo Care was introduced to facilitate skin-to-skin contact. We also educated her in better parenting behavior and provided repeated motivational interviews with her family because a lack of partner and social support and personal temperament (low self-directedness and cooperativeness) were thought to be related to her bonding disorder. This case suggests the effectiveness of Kangaroo Care, which promotes a humanizing maturation of both baby and parent alike, for mothers with postpartum depression and comorbid severe bonding disorder.

Author(s):  
Sarantaki A ◽  

Background: Pregnancy is the period nature has provided future parents so they adapt and process the big event of becoming a mother and father. When a pregnancy ends sooner than expected, parents feel unsure and unprepared for their new role and responsibilities. Moreover, the complex feelings they experience when the premature neonate is admitted in the NICU, become enlarged by the disruption of bonding with their child. Aim: The aim of this paper is firstly to understand the importance of bonding for both the neonate and the parents and secondly to propose ways of enhancing parent-child bonding, when the latter is admitted in the NICU. Conclusion: Parent-child bonding is essential for the parental role, the parents’ mental health as well as the infant’s development. NICU environment is possible to become friendlier in a way that enables parents to participate in their child’s care and early experiences. Family-centered care enhances parentchild bonding, with the main contributor being skin-to-skin contact and Kangaroo care.


Author(s):  
Abigail R. Clarke-Sather ◽  
Kelly Cobb ◽  
Catherine Maloney ◽  
Hannah Young

When considering how to design medical devices considering the needs of the patient and hospital staff may seem sufficient. Hospitalized infants are patients who cannot speak or advocate for their needs; the parents and the hospital staff caring for infant patients have different roles that together are integral to an infant’s recovery. Figure 1 shows how mothers, nurses, and infants form a system of care to promote infant patient healing. In particular caregiver behaviors such as kangaroo care (KC), are dependent upon the involvement of family. KC, defined as bare skin-to-skin contact between an infant and an adult caregiver, is usually done chest-to-chest. The design of wearables for the caregivers holding the infant patient can make KC easier and be part of wearable medical device design that improves infant patient outcomes.


2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aniko Kukla ◽  
Susan M. Ludington-Hoe

ABSTRACTKangaroo care (KC), also known as skin-to-skin contact, saves lives, but fewer than 50% of newborns and mothers in U.S. hospitals receive KC because of lack of knowledge and skill competency. Because nurses can increase knowledge and skill competency through a certification course, the value of certification as a kangaroo caregiver and administrative incentives for certification as a kangaroo caregiver were evaluated in 71 neonatal intensive care and maternal–newborn unit nurses who completed an electronic questionnaire and the Perceived Value of Certification Tool. Nurses highly valued their KC certification, agreeing with 17 of 18 positive value statements. KC certification increased salary for a few, but institution-based incentives for KC certification are still limited and recognition of KC certification is needed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Solfiani Ebrin Toni ◽  
Monalisa Sitompul ◽  
Evelyn Hemme Tambunan

ABSTRAK Pendahuluan: perawatan Metode Kanguru (Kangaroo Mother Care) adalah perawatan untuk bayi berat lahir rendah atau bayi yang lahir prematur dengan melakukan kontak kulit antara bayi dan kulit ibu atau skin to skin contact, dimana ibu menggunakan suhu tubuhnya untuk menghangatkan bayi. Tujuan: penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi pengalaman ibu mengenai pelaksanaan perawatan metode kanguru di rumah pada BBLR di Wilayah kerja Puskesmas Parongpong Kecamatan Bandung Barat. Metode: penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif fenomenalogi. Penelitian ini melibatkan 3 orang Key Informant dengan teknik proposive sampling, memenuhi kriteria memiliki BBLR dan berpengalaman menggunakan PMK selama di rumah. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan cara wawancara yang dilengkapi dengan pedoman wawancara. Wawancara direkam kemudian di buat transkrip verbatim dan dianalisis dengan metode Colaizzi. Hasil: dalam penelitian ini adalah tiga tema dan dua belas kategori yang muncul. Diskusi: hasil penelitian memberikan saran bagi ibu, institusi kesehatan keluarga agar mendukung ibu yang memiliki BBLR dalam melaksanakan PMK dan menjadi pedoman penelitian lanjutan bagi bidang penelitian. ABSTRACT Introduction: : Kangaroo Care (Kangaroo Mother Care) is a treatment for low birth weight baby or infants born prematurely with contact the skin between baby and mother's skin or skin to skin contact, which is body temperature can be spark the baby. Objective: this study aims to identify the mother's experience over the treatment method of kangaroo in the house for low birth weight in the work area of the Puskesmas Parongpong West Bandung. Method: this research is a qualitative phenomenology which involved three Key Informants using proposive sampling technique with criteria experienced using kangaroo care at home for baby with low birth weight. The data collected through indepth interview, which is equipped with the guidelines interview. The interview recorded and transcript to using verbatim and analyzed by the method of Collaizzi. Results: there are three themes and twelve categories merges in this study. Discussion: this study provided advice for mothers, the family's health to support mothers with LBW in implementing the PMK and to guide further research for the wide research field of research.


2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Hake-Brooks ◽  
Gene Cranston Anderson

Purpose: To determine the effects of kangaroo care (KC) (skin-to-skin contact) on breastfeeding status in mother–preterm infant dyads from postpartum through 18 months.Design: Randomized, controlled trial. The control group received standard nursery care; in the intervention group, unlimited KC was encouraged.Sample: A subsample of 66 mothers and their preterm infants (32–36 completed weeks gestation, 1,300–3,000 g, 5 minute Apgar ≥6) who intended to breastfeed.Main Outcome Variables: Breastfeeding status at hospital discharge and at 1.5, 3, 6, 12, and 18 months as measured by the Index of Breastfeeding Status.Results: KC dyads, compared to control dyads, breastfed significantly longer (5.08 months vs 2.05 months), p = .003. KC dyads also breastfed more exclusively at each measurement, p = .047. More KC dyads than control dyads breastfed at full exclusivity (100 percent breast milk, index of breastfeeding status levels 1 or 2) at discharge and at 1.5, 3, and 6 months. Mean KC contact per day was 4.47 hours.


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