This is a perfect example that the technology itself is not bad, but depends on the use we make of it. In this case it is a use absurd, to connect the mother and her premature baby through an iPad.
The mother and the baby can communicate through video chat while he is in an intensive care incubator. A baby in these conditions only needs skin-to-skin contact with his mother, providing heat, food and shelter. Not talking to him through a screen.
The program Baby time has been launched in the Intensive Care Unit of Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, in the US, with the intention, as explained, that "create bonds, even when mothers cannot be with their babies".
They also say it helps reduce the mother's fear and stress by being separated from her baby. And i ask myself. What about the baby's stress from being separated from his mother?
As you know, premature babies need to be in skin to skin contact with her mother.
The so-called Kangaroo Method has a magical effect on its recovery. It has emotional and neurological benefits for both the mother and the baby, improves its vital signs, helps regulate body temperature, decreases apnea and improves the baby's immune system protecting it from infections.
