Obstetrics

Hospital staff's negative attitudes affect rates of mother-child rooming-in

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 30th, 2005

Mothers of newborns are not rooming-in with their babies, even when they think it is valuable, according to a study published in the June 2005 issue of the journal Birth.

Research supported by the Swedish Government and conducted at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, suggests that mothers who left their babies in the hospital nursery at night more often perceived that the staff believed that was where the babies belonged. Of the mothers who did not room-in, 73% were in favor of the option but were influenced by negative staff attitudes toward night rooming-in. The mothers who did not room-in rated closeness between mother and infant lower and were more...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-30)

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