In this paper, we highlight the need for acknowledging the importance and impact of both
physical and emotional closeness between the preterm infant and parent in the neonatal …

Background Preterm infants are at greater risk for neurodevelopmental disabilities than full
term infants. Interventions supporting parents to improve the quality of the infant's …

Objective: To examine changes that occur in infant and parent salivary oxytocin (OT) and
salivary cortisol (SC) levels during skin-to-skin contact (SSC) and whether SSC alleviates …

Objective. Early mother–infant relationships in preterm populations were evaluated in the
context of a systematic review of the literature. Design and setting. A systematic search of …

Around 15 million children are born preterm (< 37 weeks of gestation) every year. Of these,
15% or 2.25 million are born very preterm (VP;< 32 weeks of gestation). Here, the …

OBJECTIVE: Premature birth is a stressful experience for parents. This study explores the
links between maternal posttraumatic stress, maternal attachment representations of the …

This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable
synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children's emotional development …

Procedural pain in the neonatal intensive care unit triggers a cascade of physiological,
behavioral and hormonal disruptions which may contribute to altered neurodevelopment in …

The behaviour problems of children born preterm at school age are well known, but there
have been few studies on the behaviour problems of preterm‐born infants during infancy …

OBJECTIVES. We compared the frequency of behavioral problems in very preterm and term
children at 5 years of age. We hypothesized that behavioral problems would be associated …