Newborn Basics: Pediatrician Tips for Caring for Your New Baby
Pediatrician Nivedita More, MD, provides expert advice for new parents and their new baby.
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Reading, skin-to-skin bonding offer developmental benefits to NICU babies
Programs offered by the development department promote important benefits of reading and skin-to-skin bonding in furthering development of the hospital’s most fragile babies.
Mom of ‘surprise’ twins takes skin-to-skin time seriously in the intensive care nursery.
Vanessa Applegate was not expecting twins. The very day she discovered her one baby was in fact, one of two growing in-utero, she was admitted into Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
The Power of Touch
For babies, the nine months of pregnancy may feel like one long, loving embrace. It’s not surprising, then, that studies support the benefits of skin-to-skin contact for mothers and babies from the moment of birth, throughout infancy and beyond.
