‘Now she has become my daughter’: parents’ early experiences of skin‐to‐skin contact with extremely preterm infants

ConclusionsParents progressed from ambivalence to a feeling of fundamental mutual needs for skin‐to‐skin contact. Parents found the bonding facilitated by skin‐to‐skin contact to be valuable, regardless of the infant's survival.

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences - August 29, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Ragnhild Maastrup, Janne Weis, Anne B. Engsig, Kirsten L. Johannsen, Vibeke Zoffmann Tags: Empirical Studies Source Type: research