The reduction of psychological and emotional stress in mothers of preterm babies and the prevention of interaction disruptions with the newborn in the neonatal intensive care unit

• Elizaveta I. Sukhanova

Abstract

The article describes common psychological and emotional complications faced by parents (mothers) whose infants are in the neonatal intensive care unit, and also suggestions ways to prevent them.

Keywords:emotional complications of parents whose infants are in the neonatal intensive care unit; fears of parents whose babies are in the neonatal intensive care unit; psychological assistance to parents of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit; prevention of contact disruption between mother and infant in the neonatal intensive care unit

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