Thoughts and Emotions of parents in establishment of a parent-child relationship with infants discharged from NICU

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24659999
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: University of Yamanashi
• Principal Investigator: ANDO Harumi 山梨大学, 総合研究部, 講師 (20377493)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: NICU / 低出生体重児 / 親子関係形成

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Mothers of low-birth weight infants had to go through delivery in [confusion toward unexpected premature labor], and even if the infants were saved, they continue to [feel anxious about impediments] such as blindness due to retinopathy or walking difficulty and intellectual disability due to brain disorder. However, even under these circumstances, they can feel [communicating with their infants] and [pleasures in breastfeeding].
After hospital discharge, they may be [hurt by comments of others] who have no idea about the situation and say “why is your baby so small?” or “that’s a pity”, when they go out. However, the mothers start having “hope for their infants to grow” after seeing their steady growth without any impediments that they had been worried about.

Free Research Field

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