Aims and objectives To explore how parents and nurses experience partnership in neonatal
intensive care units and to identify existing barriers and facilitators to a successful …

Abstract The Family Initiative's International Neonatal Fathers Working Group, whose
members are the authors of this paper, has reviewed the literature on engaging fathers in …

Objective To 1) define predictors of parent presence, any holding, holding in arms, and skin-
to-skin care in the NICU and 2) investigate the relationships between parent participation …

Abstract In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a technical report on
the lifelong effects of early toxic stress on human development, and included a new …

When I look back., I realize that I was being prepared for the long road ahead as prematurity
does not end when the baby gets discharged. My son came home on oxygen and during the …

Background Parent-infant closeness during hospital care of newborns has many benefits for
both infants and parents. We developed an educational intervention for neonatal staff, Close …

Background Studies of parents' psychological well-being in single-family rooms in neonatal
intensive care units have shown conflicting results. Aims To compare emotional distress in …

Importance Active participation in care by parents and zero separation between parents and
their newborns is highly recommended during infant hospitalization in the neonatal intensive …

Parenting preterm infants is a unique experience distinct from parenting full‐term infants,
characterized by a delayed transition to parenthood and limited caregiving opportunities …

Background Many parents develop stress-related symptoms and depression when their
preterm infant is hospitalised in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) after birth. We …