Family Nurture Intervention has been shown to improve the development of prematurebabies. PedsTwitter
A new study published in, showed that the intervention led to a greater likelihood that babies had improved cognitive development later on, narrowing the developmental gap between healthy, full-term babies.
Mothers in the intervention group made as much eye contact with the infants as possible with their babies and spoke with infants about their feelings. Grunau said that while many other programs and interventions have been used in the neonatal intensive care unit to help infants and mothers, the results from FNI stand out.
The approach is also gaining interest outside of the clinical setting, as preschool partners have expressed interest in implementing some of the methods to promote development. Clinicians can encourage mothers to express deep, emotional feelings toward the infant. Welch stressed that feelings don't have to be positive, as many mothers with babies in the NICU have a hard time expressing positive emotions. Crying or talking about the difficulties of their childbirth experience count as expressing emotion. The important part is that the baby hears emotion, of any kind, in the mother's voice, Welch said.
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