Executive summary Every infant, child, and adolescent will experience pain at times
throughout their life. Childhood pain ranges from acute to chronic, and includes procedural …

Background Over the past several decades, improvements in technology in the Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit (NICU) have led to improved survival of preterm infants. Some studies …

The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex
and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than …

The perinatal period is a time of fast physiological change, including epigenetic
programming. Adverse events may lead to epigenetic changes, with implications for health …

Aim Our aim was to investigate what effect immediate skin‐to‐skin contact with a parent had
on the cardiorespiratory stabilisation of very preterm infants. Methods This randomised …

There is increasing evidence of ongoing changes occurring in short-term and longterm
motor and language outcomes in the preterm population. In addition, there is increased …

MRI has enhanced our capacity to understand variations in brain structure and function
conferred by the genome. We identified 60 studies that report associations between DNA …

Preterm infants are hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and are
precociously separated from their mothers. Although developmental care interventions are …

Very preterm (VPT) infants admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are at risk for
altered brain growth and less-than-optimal socio-emotional development. Recent research …

Very preterm infants may manifest neurodevelopmental impairments, even in the absence of
brain lesions. Pathogenesis is complex and multifactorial. Evidence suggests a role of early …