Publications by authors named "Geisy M de S Lima"
Objetive: To understand the role of exposure to skin-to-skin contact and its minimum duration in determining exclusive breastfeeding at hospital discharge in infants weighing up to 1,800g at birth.
Methods: A multicenter cohort study was carried out in five Brazilian neonatal units. Infants weighing ≤ 1,800g at birth were eligible.
To assess stress experienced during Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) stay, we analyzed fingernail Cortisol (CORT) and Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) levels and ratios in mothers and preterm infants (PI); compared hormones levels/ratio (CORT and DHEA) in kangaroo care (KC) versus standard care (SC) groups and examined relationships between PI hormone levels total days spent in the NICU. Mothers and their infants were recruited in the NICU, included levels I-IV and kangaroo care unit, within one week of infant birth in hospitals in Brazil. At 3 months after birth, mothers provided 3-month growth clippings from all ten digits of their own and their infants' fingernails.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To characterize the lingual frenulum of full-term newborns using two different protocols and to assess the association of the lingual frenulum with breastfeeding.
Methods: This non-probabilistic sample consisted of 449 mother/baby binomials. For the anatomo-functional evaluation of the frenulum, the Neonatal Tongue Screening Test and the Bristol Tongue Assessment Tool were used for the evaluation of the lingual frenulum.
Objective: To evaluate the relationship between prone and lateral positioning of preterm infants in Kangaroo Mother Care and early neuromotor development.
Methods: Eighty preterm infants born at Instituto Materno-Infantil de Pernambuco, Brazil, admitted to the Kangaroo Mother Care Unit between July and October 2004 were divided into two groups. Forty infants were placed in prone position (PP), while the remaining 40 children were kept in lateral decubitus (LD).