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Originally posted by Carrie@Nov 10 2003, 03:28 PM
It's no wonder to me why incubators are little death-traps. Imagine the number of sheer germs floating around in hospitals - even with the sterilized equipment and filtered air. It's where sick people go in large numbers every day.
Plus you take a baby completely and totally away from its mother, her warmth, her heartbeat, and her breastmilk... no child fares well without those crucial things. If he needs the tubes and such, so be it - but let him lay in his mother's arms where the familiar sound of her heart can calm and relax him and her nutritious breastmilk can feed him.
Children in incubators have always looked to me to be horribly frightened and alone; stress is one of the most dangerous things to a baby's fragile system.
I know, getting off-topic here.
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You're right.. their nervous systems go haywire in the NICU ... you have to keep very quiet and with my boy they covered his ears to help him cope.