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Studies suggest that premature infants who are touched
fare
better than those kept in isolation despite the additional
infection risk. It seems likely that anything fuzzy, warm,
and slightly moving combined with comforting voices could
provide the same effect. I suggest a sterile, warm, moving,
cooing (in a person's voice) stuffed (fuzzy and textured like
a person) toy for the incubators of
premature children.
Suggested reading: "wire
frame mother"
EDIT: fixed a word
touching babies
http://www.uncommon.../touch/touch-2.html
[Voice, Jun 19 2011]
Also related
http://today.msnbc....as-pronounced-dead/
[Voice, Jun 19 2011]
Stroking without holding
http://psycnet.apa....nals/dev/1/6p1/765/
[mouseposture, Jun 19 2011]
It's a primate thing.
http://whyfiles.org/087mother/4.html
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jun 19 2011]
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What has "fuzzy" to do with "touching" ? Fuzzy is
difficult to keep clean, so it requires justification.
Otherwise, propose something warm and moving,
but easier to sterilize. Also, is any tactile
stimulation equally good, or must it resemble the
way adults naturally touch infants? Apparently,
cuddling isn't necessary <link>, but there's still a
bit
of difference between "stroking" and, for
example,
"poking." |
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Edit: The wire frame/cloth mothers were
passive,they didn't
actively touch the monkeys. Not clear if that
generalizes to active touching. In the linked
paper, for example, the stroking hands were
probably gloved, not fuzzy. But a reasonable
point. |
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Perhaps the floor of the incubator could be
made of a slightly flexible material, underneath
which was a roller, pressing slightly upwards
against the underside, which rolled from the head
to the foot end, repeatedly, giving a stroking
effect without risk of, for example, getting
tangled in the many tubes & wires attached to the
infants, or rubbing too hard, in the wrong place,
and injuring them. |
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