母婴同室的好处 有人曾认为，婴儿刚刚娩出，那频繁的哭闹声会影响乳母休息，故采取母婴分离的办法，只是在喂奶时才让婴儿回到母亲身边。
其实，这样做对乳母、婴儿均不利。母子触摸、婴儿哭闹、母子对视、婴儿气味等，不仅可以增进母婴感情，而且还是一个个良好的刺激信号，可有效地刺激泌乳系统，解除下丘脑的抑制，导致泌乳素增高，乳汁分泌自然，状如涌泉。
母婴同室主要好处有以下四个：
一、提高母乳喂养率母婴同室，由母亲护理孩子，产妇心里会有一种说不出的喜悦，在护理过程中能增进母爱。产妇听到宝宝的哭声，看到宝宝的一举一动，乳汁的分泌会有所增加。据有关资料的报道，母婴同室的母乳喂养率明显高于非母婴同室者。
二、提高护理质量母婴同室，母亲自己护理新生儿，会使产妇更熟悉和了解自己的孩子。而每天医务人员对新生儿的护理、喂水、换尿布以及具体育儿常识的宣教可以共同进行，母亲可以边看、边听、边做，有利于提高护理质量，及时发现宝宝身体上的异常情况。
三、促进宝宝身体和智力的发育母婴同室，宝宝躺在母亲的身旁，能熟悉母亲的气味，听到母亲的声音并体验到母亲给予孩子一种特殊的抚慰。同时又能加深小宝宝与母亲的感情，使其产生一种安全感。 (more...)
why is rooming in beneficial
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Rooming-in. This is the option we encourage most mothers and babies to enjoy. Full rooming-in allows you to exercise your mothering instincts when the hormones in your body are programmed for it. In our experience, and that of others who study newborns, mothers and babies who fully room-in enjoy the following benefits:
Rooming-in babies seem more content because they interact with only one caregiver—mother.
Full rooming-in changes the caregiving mindset of the attending personnel. They focus their attention and care on the mother, who is then more comfortable and able to focus on her baby.
Rooming-in newborns cry less and more readily organize their sleep-wake cycles. Babies in a large nursery are sometimes soothed by tape recordings of a human heartbeat or music. Rather than being soothed electronically, the baby who is rooming-in with mother is soothed by real and familiar sounds.
Mother has fewer breastfeeding problems. Her milk appears sooner, and baby seems more satisfied.
Rooming-in babies get less jaundiced, probably because they get more milk.
A rooming-in mother usually gets more rest. She experiences less separation anxiety, not wasting energy worrying about her newborn in the nursery, and in the first few days newborns sleep most of the time anyway. It's a myth that mothers of nursery-reared babies get more rest.
Rooming-in mothers, in our experience, have a lower incidence of postpartum depression.
Rooming-in is especially helpful for women who have difficulty jumping right into mothering. One day while making rounds I visited Jan, a new mother, only to find her sad. "What's wrong?" I inquired. She confided, "All those gushy feelings I'm supposed to have about my baby—well, I don't? I'm nervous, tense, and don't know what to do." I encouraged Jan, "Love at first sight doesn't happen to every couple, in courting or in parenting. For some mother-infant pairs it is a slow and gradual process. Don't worry your baby will help you, but you have to set the conditions that allow the mother-infant care system to click in." I went on to explain what these conditions were.
All babies are born with a group of special qualities called attachment- promoting behaviors—features and behaviors designed to alert the caregiver to the baby's presence and draw the caregiver, magnet like, toward the baby. These features are the roundness of baby's eyes, cheeks, and body; the softness of the skin; the relative bigness of baby's eyes; the penetrating gaze; the incredible newborn scent; and, perhaps, most important of all, baby's early language—the cries and precrying noises.
Here's how the early mother-infant communication system works. The opening sounds of the baby's cry {C} activate a mother's emotions. This is physical as well as psychological. Upon hearing her baby cry, a mother experiences an increased blood flow to her breasts, accompanied by the biological urge to pick up and nurse her baby. This is one of the strongest examples of how the biological signals of the baby trigger a biological response in the mother. There is no other signal in the world that sets off such intense responses in a mother as her baby's cry. At no other time in the child's life will language so forcefully stimulate the mother to act.
Rooming-in. This is the option we encourage most mothers and babies to enjoy. Full rooming-in allows you to exercise your mothering instincts when the hormones in your body are programmed for it. In our experience, and that of others who study newborns, mothers and babies who fully room-in enjoy the following benefits:
Rooming-in babies seem more content because they interact with only one caregiver—mother.
Full rooming-in changes the caregiving mindset of the attending personnel. They focus their attention and care on the mother, who is then more comfortable and able to focus on her baby.
Rooming-in newborns cry less and more readily organize their sleep-wake cycles. Babies in a large nursery are sometimes soothed by tape recordings of a human heartbeat or music. Rather than being soothed electronically, the baby who is rooming-in with mother is soothed by real and familiar sounds.
Mother has fewer breastfeeding problems. Her milk appears sooner, and baby seems more satisfied.
Rooming-in babies get less jaundiced, probably because they get more milk.
A rooming-in mother usually gets more rest. She experiences less separation anxiety, not wasting energy worrying about her newborn in the nursery, and in the first few days newborns sleep most of the time anyway. It's a myth that mothers of nursery-reared babies get more rest.
Rooming-in mothers, in our experience, have a lower incidence of postpartum depression.
Rooming-in is especially helpful for women who have difficulty jumping right into mothering. One day while making rounds I visited Jan, a new mother, only to find her sad. "What's wrong?" I inquired. She confided, "All those gushy feelings I'm supposed to have about my baby—well, I don't? I'm nervous, tense, and don't know what to do." I encouraged Jan, "Love at first sight doesn't happen to every couple, in courting or in parenting. For some mother-infant pairs it is a slow and gradual process. Don't worry your baby will help you, but you have to set the conditions that allow the mother-infant care system to click in." I went on to explain what these conditions were.
All babies are born with a group of special qualities called attachment- promoting behaviors—features and behaviors designed to alert the caregiver to the baby's presence and draw the caregiver, magnet like, toward the baby. These features are the roundness of baby's eyes, cheeks, and body; the softness of the skin; the relative bigness of baby's eyes; the penetrating gaze; the incredible newborn scent; and, perhaps, most important of all, baby's early language—the cries and precrying noises.
Here's how the early mother-infant communication system works. The opening sounds of the baby's cry {C} activate a mother's emotions. This is physical as well as psychological. Upon hearing her baby cry, a mother experiences an increased blood flow to her breasts, accompanied by the biological urge to pick up and nurse her baby. This is one of the strongest examples of how the biological signals of the baby trigger a biological response in the mother. There is no other signal in the world that sets off such intense responses in a mother as her baby's cry. At no other time in the child's life will language so forcefully stimulate the mother to act.
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