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  • Title: A rooming-in program for mothers and newborns at Gunung Wenang General Hospital Manado.
    Author: Mustajab I, Munir M.
    Journal: Paediatr Indones; 1986; 26(9-10):177-84. PubMed ID: 3808735.
    Abstract:
    A comparative study was conducted to determine the advantages and disadvantages of the rooming-in program versus the ordinary nursery. The investigation was a retrospective study of cases during 1 year before (ordinary nursery in 1980) and during (rooming-in nursery in 1981) the rooming-in program for the newborns delivered and admitted to the neonatal ward of the Pediatric Department, Medical Faculty, Sam Ratulangi University Manado (Indonesia). The rooming-in program used in this study was continuous rooming-in, in which the newborns were allowed to stay with the mothers during the nursery period. The mothers were given all the information about the rooming-in program every day by the nurses and students. They were taught how to bathe the baby, to take care of the umbilicus, to change diapers, etc., and they were instructed to give the breast to the baby as early as possible. In the rooming-in program, breastfeeding was given on demand. The general condition, birth weight, birth length and weight loss during a 6-day or more hospital stay, diarrheal diseases, neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis, perinatal deaths, and other factors were recorded. 164 newborn babies were put in the rooming-in program (Group 1) and 485 newborn babies in the ordinary nursery (Group II). The findings were as follows: the physiological body weight loss was smaller among the infants in the rooming-in program than in the ordinary nursery. Diarrhea and the other infections were found more often in the ordinary nursery than in the rooming-in program. The infant mortality rate was less in the rooming-in program. Rooming-in encouraged and made breastfeeding more continuous. No disadvantages to the rooming-in program were found.
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