Perceptions and actions of healthcare professionals regarding the mother-child relationship with premature babies in an intermediate neonatal intensive care unit: a qualitative study

The parents who drafted "The Principles For Family-Centered Neonatal Care"1 have all spent considerable time in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Most of us are parents of two or more premature babies. We are familiar with NICU families of all backgrounds through our work in support organizations, disability rights groups, and ethics committees. Our university educations may have made us better able to understand and articulate the issues, but they did not significantly alter our experience in the NICU.

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Too Expensive to Treat? Non-Treatment Decisions at the Margins of Viability

Medical Law Review ◽

10.1093/medlaw/fwy035 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 461-481

Author(s):

Tatiana Flessas ◽

Emily Jackson

Keyword(s):

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽

Premature Infant ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Treatment Decisions ◽

Educational Needs ◽

The State ◽

Premature Babies

Abstract This article seeks to challenge the assumption that it is legitimate to consider the costs of premature babies’ future social and educational needs when deciding what treatment, if any, to provide in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) . It questions the elision that is made between the claim that a particular treatment is insufficiently cost-effective and the claim that a person will be a burden on the state in the future. It discusses a series of common misunderstandings about how treatment decisions are taken in the NICU and concludes by suggesting that the claim that premature babies are too expensive to treat may depend upon regarding a premature infant as if she were not yet a person, with rights and interests of her own.

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Caregiving can be costly: A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to conducting kangaroo mother care in a US tertiary hospital neonatal intensive care unit

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth ◽

10.1186/s12884-019-2363-y ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Todd P. Lewis ◽

Kathryn G. Andrews ◽

Elyse Shenberger ◽

Theresa S. Betancourt ◽

Günther Fink ◽

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Keyword(s):

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care ◽

Tertiary Hospital ◽

Kangaroo Mother Care ◽

Barriers And Facilitators

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Maternal experiences with specificities of prematurity that hinder breastfeeding

Texto & Contexto - Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/0104-07072015000540014 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 55-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Luciana Barbosa Pereira ◽

Ana Cristina Freitas de Vilhena Abrão ◽

Conceição Vieira da Silva Ohara ◽

Circéa Amália Ribeiro

Keyword(s):

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽

Preterm Infants ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care ◽

Clinical Instability ◽

Mothers Of Preterm Infants ◽

Late Start

A qualitative study which has Symbolic Interactionism as theoretical framework and Interpretative Interactionism as its methodological one, aiming to unveil motherly experiences against prematurity peculiarities that hinder breastfeeding during infant's hospitalization at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Were interviewed 13 mothers of preterm infants assisted at an Outpatient Follow-up Clinic of Montes Claros MG, Brazil. Results show that as trying to breastfeed a premature infant, the mother interacts with situations signified by her as obstacles to breastfeeding: the "torment" of their child's hospitalization and clinical instability, the fear of baby's death, its difficulty to suck, the late start of breastfeeding interpreted a something difficult, as a risk to weight. We consider that although breastfeeding a preterm infant is a challenge, appropriate professional conducts and hospital procedures might facilitate it and therefore should be implemented, aiming at promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding.

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