Hold Your Premie: Skin-to-skin contact for parents of premature babies

Time: 29 minutes 

Learn here that latest research shows “Hold Your Premie” is in fact vital to help babies feel safe and stabilize on their mom’s skin from the moment of birth.  In this DVD, based on the book with the same title, Jill Bergman describes in everyday language for every parent to understand, the neuroscience and medical terminology to parents.  Working with her husband Dr. Nils Bergman who is a neonatal neuroscience researcher and public health physician, together they have proven that it is separation from mother that makes babies in incubators frightened and so unstable. When held in skin-to-skin contact, even the smallest babies will feel safe and stabilize.  This is an original paradigm that has been termed Natural Way Kangaroo Mother Care.