Preterm birth entails that infants are born too early and that parents, in turn, become parents
earlier than planned. The study of parent-infant interaction with a premature infant is vast …

Abstract This Letter to the Editor highlights that most research projects and current support
programs in the area of infant prematurity have concentrated mainly or exclusively on infants …

Objective: To examine factors associated with long-term involvement of the fathers of
children born to adolescent mothers receiving health care in a teen-tot clinic. Design: Ninety …

Aim Early parental bonding with preterm babies is particularly important, and the aim of our
study was to explore when parents experienced what they regarded as important events for …

There has been an increased amount of research in recent years exploring the experiences
of fathers whilst on the neonatal intensive care unit; however this number does not match the …

Many complications seen in children born prematurely are related to an unhealthy parent‐
infant relationship in the early postpartum period. Hospital staff should be on the alert for …

This aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an early intervention program to
reduce paternal stress and increase fathering ability after a preterm infant's admission to the …

The objective of this study was to map and understand the feelings experienced by the
father in cases of the birth of a premature child hospitalized in a Neonatal Intensive Care …

The relationships of Israeli mothers and fathers with their 38 preterm infants during
hospitalization were traced in a short-term longitudinal study. Parent-infant interactions were …

This study was conducted to find out the paternal attachment to neonate, and to identify
factors affecting paternal attachment. The purpose was to make the base data for nursing …