Rooming-in

After birth, the baby is often removed from the mother not considering that most of the interactions that will affect the newborn’s life are in close relation with the time he will spend with his mum.

An early mother-infant contact will positively affect the relationship between them, the maternal attachment process, the success of breastfeeding and above all it will strengthen the capacity to face stressing situations.
Furthermore, the mother with her bacteria will facilitate a bacterial colonization, vital for the baby to defend himself against diseases.

What is rooming-in?

Rooming-in is the practice whereby a mother stays with her newborn throughout the period of her postnatal hospital stay. Rooming-in has proved to hold psychological benefits and it promotes greater bonding giving the mother the opportunity to learn and develop confidence in feeding and caring for her new baby.

Mother and baby are separated only to allow nurses and doctors to give the baby the necessary medical assistance she needs but at the same time they have also the greatest task to do not be too intrusive and let the mother feel free to show her personal emotions after birth.

It is extremely important that the mother is given proper support by nurses when she is welcoming the baby with the right discretion and attention especially if specific clinical conditions of both mother and infant don’t allow the mother to take care autonomously of her baby.

According to a wider meaning of Rooming-in it is possible to include in the same room the dad and other family members so that if the mother needs some rest they can hold and take care of the baby.

Positive aspects

Undoubtedly, the practice of Rooming-in allows to carry out the close symbiosis that lasted 9 months and that both mother and infant need to be in contact with each other since the very beginning.

Furthermore, taking care of her baby as soon as possible means for the mother to familiarize with the daily problems (sucking, breastfeeding, nappy changing, etc..) and face them easily also counting on the precious help of nurses.
A further positive aspect of Rooming-in is the possibility to count on the maternal instinct to promptly recognize a possible newborn’s neonatal adaptation syndrome and any signs of possible pathologies. In this way, it would be possible to promptly intervene.

Moreover, Rooming-in is proved to be a valid organizational pattern to encourage breastfeeding in particular the so called “on demand” that means feeding the baby whenever she is hungry.
In doing so the need to assume additional liquids apart from mother’s milk reduces considerably and it may represent an occasion to establish a deep mutual relation between mother and infant.

How long should the Rooming-in last for?

Every mother is free to decide whether to practice the Rooming-in and its length; indeed no rules from medical staff are actually imposed in this respect.

It is also scientifically proven that the more time the baby spends with her mum, the less the infant is confused by different sensory stimulus: just enough to think that newborn babies have a overdeveloped sense of smell (they recognize mum’s and maternal milk smell) and a restricted field of vision of 20/30 cm that actually is the distance between mum and baby’s eyes when she is attached to breast.

“Open nursery”: a valid alternative

A valid alternative to Rooming-in may be the "open nursery": it means that nursery’s rooms become accessible at any moment to mums and dads who can enjoy a prolonged contact with their baby.

The "open nursery" allows first-time parents to get the proper experience and practice in taking care of their baby as regards hygiene, umbilical cord treatment, breastfeeding and so on along with nurses and doctors’ support.
In addition, this practice also allows the mother to have some rest and a moment to dedicate to her family whenever she desires.

Help! My baby won't eat!

Lots of babies, once they have reached the age of 1 year, go through a critical stage in which they refuse to eat. This makes parents worrying and drives them to seek help to specialists in educational psychology dynamics.

Indeed, mums get seriously worried when their babies start to refuse food and transform meal time in real food fights especially if they have always eaten heartily overcoming the weaning time smoothly.

Why does she refuse to eat?

During its first year, every child triples its weight: this is a growth rhythm that has no equal in life.
It is logical that in order to meet such a huge calories requirements, the baby will always eat heartily seldom refusing the baby bottle.
From the first year on, growth starts to assume a slower pace, calories requirements diminish and consequently the amount of food the baby needs diminishes as well.
The baby will naturally eat less and you, like any other mother, will inevitably start to worry about your child’s health.

Food’s refusal is a problem that goes far beyond the change in the baby’s growth pace: indeed it may depend on many different reasons such as baby’s age, emotional condition and attitude.
Nutrition is indeed where the baby reflects her inner emotions of life and consequently the parent-son relationship. That means that often at the root of lack of appetite there may be a child’s desire to communicate an intimate trouble that parents must meet properly.

Just think about that baby’s nutrition starts soon after birth with breastfeeding that takes on a special significance: in its first months the newborn is used to have mother’s milk while she holds him in a safe hug.
When this close intimate relationship ceases, food’s acceptance or refusal may takes on important psychological meanings.
Meal time has to be a joyful moment as the breastfeeding was: it is necessary thou to create an atmosphere of confidence and avoid to make those mistakes that risk to compromise the moment of meal.

Another reason that may lead the baby to refuse the food is a overly concerned family that convey anxious emotions and feelings.
Indeed, mealtime is not only aimed at nutrition itself but the moment in which mother and baby have an important and delicate relational exchange and the baby absorbs all the emotions that parents convey.
No needs to say that a hungry baby who eats everything her mum cooks, gives mother a great sense of satisfaction and acceptance of her role.
In order to satisfy this need to feel approved, mother may risk to give meal time excessive importance. Indeed, since babies also communicate their feelings with food, it is highly probable that they refuse to eat to show a discomfort when a negative behaviour of their parents occurs.
Children clearly perceive if their mother is concerned about meal time and they may feel so annoyed that they refuse even to sit at the table for this reason.

In this case, the best approach may be that mother learns to recognize and respect her baby’s refusals and to understand that she, as anyone else, may have her personal tastes.

Here is some specific suggestions:

- Use natural products in your cooking according to the time you have at your disposal and what is available on the market in that season. A home-made food is the greatest gesture of love.
- During the first months, do not force your baby to eat. It is not necessary that weaning starts the 6th month and a slight delay will not affect your baby’s overall nutritional contribution.
- Once the weaning time has started, pay attention to respect your baby’s needs complying with her tastes and feeling of satiety. Coaxing or forcing her will just have the opposite effect.
- Make your baby sit in a comfortable position so that the food is within reach.
- Get her used to a more diversified diet even though she doesn’t seem to accept positively the change. In this particular period, most of the babies tend to require always the same kind of food and then suddenly abandon it for what they have always refused.
- If mealtimes are pleasant your child may begin to eating with all the other family members. It may be useful to sit at the table all together. Try to offer your child a spoon of your food and let her play with it.

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