The environment of the premature baby is very important for its proper development
There are many questions that crowd in the head of the father when his son is born prematurely. That a child comes to this world in a way early it makes the risks that threaten its integrity greater. For this reason, you have to increase care to ensure that nothing bad happens to you.
Care that should not only focus on the basics, as a group of professionals of the Instituto Hispalense de Pediatría, IHP, the environment where the baby develops premature plays a very important role in its survival. Ensuring a place without much stress or fright will help these children avoid numerous risks.
Sensorineural development
This group of experts explain that all the care of parents should be focused on ensuring the proper development of premature babies. Having not met the gestation deadlines, some functions of these children are not complete, which is why you have to work because they become operational.
Especially those related to neuronal functions since this lesser development means that the child does not have full capabilities and can not fully defend himself. To favor the growth of these functions, many aspects of the life of the premature child have to be taken care of, such as, for example, the environment in which this child lives.
This environment should minimize the stress levels and support the newborn, making the family function as a unit. For this, several aspects must be taken into account such as noise, light, posture, etc. Household members should turn as much as possible in the care of the premature child and actively participate in everything related to their child.
The environment of the premature baby
The nervous system of the premature newborn is still in development even after birth, so you have to interfere as little as possible in this process. According to the specialists of IHP, for this it is necessary to maintain "an environment as similar as possible to the maternal womb, trying to avoid stimuli such as noise, light, or pain and maintaining others such as posture, the smell of the mother, the sound of parents' voices or skin-to-skin contact. "
Obviously each newborn has specific needs depending on the moment in which it is of its development and based on its personal characteristics. "We can interpret some signs as vital signs and behavior that help us recognize these needs and adjust our care to them ", explains the head of the Neonatology Unit of the Quirónsalud Sacred Heart Hospital, María Dolores Gómez Bustos, who adds that" the importance of the family environment is fundamental, in an immediate context, for the development of the premature child "An issue that should become more and more important given that this is where this baby will spend most of its time.
Damián Montero
