With the popularity of intelligent terminals, flexible electronic products present a huge market
prospect. Tactile sensors are a new type of electronic devices which provide the possibility …

Breast-feeding initiation within the first half hour after birth is one of the World Health
Organization recommendations. However, in most hospitals, mother-infant contact and …

During the early period of hypothesis building and empirical testing of attachment theory, a
major emphasis was placed on mother-infant physical contact. In spite of this, mother-infant …

Background Kangaroo mother care (KMC), originally defined as skin‐to‐skin contact
between a mother and her newborn, frequent and exclusive or nearly exclusive …

“Kangaroo mother care” was first described as an alternative method of caring for low birth
weight infants in resource-limited countries, where neonatal mortality and infection rates are …

In the World Health Organization/United Nations Children's Fund document Baby-Friendly
Hospital Initiative: Revised, Updated and Expanded for Integrated Care, neonatal care is …

Despite the recent improvements in perinatal medical care leading to an increase in survival
rates, adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes occur more frequently in preterm and/or high …

It is well documented that the stress of separation of mother and baby can lead to short-term
physiological instability as well as neurological, sociological or psychological consequences …

State-of-the-art Newborn Intensive Care Units (NICUs), instrumental in the survival of high-
risk and everearlier-born preterm infants, often have costly human repercussions. The …

Preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) often close their eyes in response
to bright lights, but they cannot close their ears in response to loud sounds. The sudden …