Parents whose babies had undergone major surgery and were admitted to the surgical
neonatal intensive care unit for more than five days, and who could communicate in English …

OBJECTIVES: 1. Determine whether stress in preterm infants, measured with salivary
cortisol, decreases after five days of Kangaroo Care (KC) compared to five days of Standard …

Risk factors associated with prematurity and adolescent parenting greatly increase when
combined with multiple birth. Kangaroo care (KC) for preterm infants is well documented …

Objective To investigate the analgesic effect (measured with Neonatal Infant Pain Scale
(NIPS)) of breastfeeding (BF) in addition to skin-to-skin contact (SSC) versus other methods …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this trial was to investigate whether breast milk (either breastfed
or bottle-fed) has a better analgesic effect than sucrose in newborns born at a postmenstrual …

Objective: To determine factors explaining lack of response by preterm newborns to heel
stick for blood sampling. Design: A cross‐sectional design based on secondary analysis of …

Background Skin‐to‐skin care (SSC), often referred to as' kangaroo care'(KC) due to its
similarity with marsupial behaviour of ventral maternal‐infant contact, is one non …

Objectives. To determine whether skin-to-skin contact between mothers and their newborns
will reduce the pain experienced by the infant during heel lance. Design. A prospective …

BACKGROUND: Heel prick blood sampling is the most common painful invasive procedure
performed on neonates. Currently, there are no effective ways to provide pain relief from this …

Background Various non-pharmacologic methods are used to alleviate pain in preterm
infants who spend their first days in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) because they are …