Pediatrics

How parents cope with stress of the NICU affects family dynamics

Understanding how parents cope while their child is in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) could lead to better support for the family and a more successful transition to home when the baby is healthy, according to Penn ...

Pediatrics

Why skin-to-skin contact with infants is better for everyone

Carmela Torres was 18 when she became pregnant for the first time. It was 1987 and she and her now-husband, Pablo Hernandez, were two idealistic young Colombians born in the coastal region of Montería who moved to the capital, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Stressed parents may affect preemie behavior later

(HealthDay) -- When parents of very small premature infants are stressed or depressed, their children are more likely to develop behavioral problems by age 3, according to new research.

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