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Psychosocial concerns, Home/community & Postnatal wards

Psychosocial concerns, Home/community & Postnatal wards. B.Morrison María Tingvall Rejean Tessier Ann Bigelow Ragner Olegard Leslie Wolft Lucia Geneson Aisha Saifi

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Psychosocial concerns, Home/community & Postnatal wards

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  1. Psychosocial concerns, Home/community & Postnatal wards B.Morrison María Tingvall Rejean Tessier Ann Bigelow Ragner Olegard Leslie Wolft Lucia Geneson Aisha Saifi Bernie Endyami Erero Djiengwe

  2. Psychosocial content of current guidelines MothersFathers • Leas Stressed More relaxed • Increased confidence Contened • Increased self-esteem Comfortable • Sense of fulfillment While providig • Empowerment/empowers KC • Can do something + for preterm infants Increases confidence in handing & feeding • Enhances bonding

  3. NAME • Kangaroo Care to denote care given to infants are placed chest to chest (infant always on top of mom) with their mother or other primary care giver KC may be intermittent or continously Breastfeeding is the preferred means of providing nutrition to the infant but KC should be provided to ALL infants regarless of their means of obtaining nutrition

  4. Assumptions • All intrapartum and postnatal care should be given in a paradigm of non-separation of babies and their mothers/family. • Infants should be considered exterogestate foetuses needing close contact/skin to skin for up to 4 to 6 months to promote/enhance maturation. • KC should begin as soon as possible after birth and continue as often as possible for as long as possible

  5. Question 1 • Should KC be implemented to nurture psychological development in the infant, mother, father, and family development.

  6. Considerations • Birth KC essential for the initiation of breastfeeding & increasing the duration of exclusive breastfeeding & any breastfeeding. • KC enhances bonding ans attachment • Infants • Mothers • Fathers • Families • Abandonment • Abuse • Divorce

  7. Considerations 2 • Place attachment • KC helps reduces postpartum depression symptoms • KC increases maternal sensitivity to infant cue. • KC increases infant sensivity to maternal cues. • KC enhances levels of oxytocin • Dues oxytocin influence bonding, future mothering and social relationships? (indirect)

  8. Considerations 3 • KC enhances comunication language development/understand social recognition. • Brain development • Cognitive development • Interactive competence & style • Parenting stress • Family home environment improved. • Psychological development • Baby • Mother • Father

  9. Home/Community • Should KC he done outside the hospital? • Should KC be done in the community?

  10. Issues to be considered • Co-sleeping on vs beside • Garments for KMC • Easy contact with health care facilities • Frequent visits to health care facilities • Care/support for the mother • Multi-family homes • Grandmothers • Logistics travel,finances etc • Criteria for home KMC • Social situation • Drug use • Home environment • Someone who can help • No smoking while carryingbaby • Education re KMC for extended family member.

  11. Postnatal Wards • Should KC be promoted and encouraged on the postnatal wards?

  12. Implementation issues & costs • Education Mother, Father, Family • How • Stabilization of head • Warmth • Minimum of 1 hour for sleep cycles • Comfort infant-move • Avoid infection • Education about breastfeeding • (Family & staff) • Education about non-breastfeeding mothers (HIV) (Family & staff)

  13. Implementation issues & costs • Education of policy makers importance of KC for psychological development of all • Hospital • State • National • International • Staffeducation • Doctors • Midwives • Nurses • First line persons

  14. Costs • Chair & pillows • Quiet • Privacy • Undisturbed • Mirror • Garments • Follow-up • Transportation • Support

  15. Concerns & Harm • When to not do KC needs to be individualized • Moms with mental illness • Moms who are drug dependant • Baby in unstable condition depending on circumstances • Psysical impairments to mother that don´t allow mother to carry infant safely. • Harm • Forcing against mother´s will • Skin & mucous infection if incorrectly apply.

  16. Outcome assessment • Up to 18 years • Nothing in literature past 2 years • Social-emotional development • Denver • Bayley • Cognitive development WISC • Attachment – Strange situation • Youth Attachment interview Attention • What are the psychological effect of separation? • Deprivation • Depression-decrease vulnerability • Suicide rates • Addiction rates

  17. School age & teenage adaptation • Criminality • Pregnancy • Drug abuse • School drop-out • Bullying • Self-confidence • Family • Divorce rates • Family function • Breastfeeding & nutrition • Obesity/malnutrition/undernutrition • Diabetes

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