ReviewIndian journal of pediatrics2022
Mother-Newborn Care Unit (MNCU) Experience in India: A Paradigm Shift in Care of Small and Sick Newborns.
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- Effect of zero-separation in mother-newborn care unit on preterm infant's stress and growth.The Indian journal of medical research · 2026Article
- Newborn and family-centered care: a scoping review on related newborn rights and principles.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- Exploration of factors affecting parent-infant closeness and separation in hospitals in Nepal - a qualitative study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- The Swedish national guideline on immediate and uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact and mother-newborn couplet care.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Person- and family-centred care in neonatology: a scoping review to identify existing definitions, models of care, and related categories of interventions.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Mother Newborn Care Unit: An Innovation for Improving Survival of Small and Sick Babies at Tertiary Level Facility.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- "I was so worried": Experiences of parents whose infants were admitted to a neonatal care unit.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- New policies on skin-to-skin contact warrant an oxytocin-based perspective on perinatal health care.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Mother-newborn couplet care: Nordic country experiences of organization, models and practice.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2023Review
- Effect on neonatal sepsis following immediate kangaroo mother care in a newborn intensive care unit: a post-hoc analysis of a multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
- A Narrative Review of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) and Its Effects on and Benefits for Low Birth Weight (LBW) Babies.Cureus · 2022Review
- Integrating Neonatal Intensive Care Into a Family Birth Center: Describing the Integrated NICU (I-NIC).The Journal of perinatal & neonatal nursingArticle
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Abstract
While a Cochrane review (2016) showed that kangaroo mother care (KMC) initiated after clinical stabilization reduces mortality by 40%, evidence of the effect of initiating KMC immediately after birth without waiting for babies to become stable was unavailable until recently. This research gap was addressed by a multicountry, randomized, controlled trial co-ordinated by WHO. This trial was conducted in five hospitals in Ghana, India, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania. Implementation of this trial led to development of the "mother-newborn care unit (MNCU)." Mother-newborn care unit or mother-newborn intensive care unit (M-NICU) is a facility where sick and small newborns are cared with their mothers 24 × 7 with all facilities of level II newborn care and provision for postnatal care to mothers. The mother is not a mere visitor, but she has her bed inside the special newborn care unit (SNCU)/newborn intensive care unit (NICU) and as a resident of MNCU, becomes an active caregiver and is involved in continuum of neonatal care. The study results show that intervention babies in MNCU had 25% less mortality at 28 d of life, 35% less incidence of hypothermia, and 18% less suspected sepsis as compared to control babies cared in conventional NICU. World Health Organization is in the process of reviewing the current recommendations on care of preterm or LBW newborns considering new evidence that has become available. However, it would require national policy change to permit mother and surrogate in SNCU/NICU 24 × 7, making the concept of zero-separation a reality.
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