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- Developmental care in the NICU is often overlooked during standard activities like diapering, despite its importance for infant health and growth.
- Caregivers can implement individualized developmental care measures during diapering to enhance the experience for infants, protecting their sleep and minimizing stress.
- A developmental approach to diapering not only improves skin health and fosters family involvement but also supports infants in reaching their neurodevelopmental potential.
Article Abstract
Developmental care measures are integrated in the NICU, but these measures are largely overlooked when it comes to standard care activities such as diapering. This general review of developmental care in the NICU discusses how caregivers can apply appropriate, individualized developmental care measures to diapering regimens. Numerous opportunities to expand developmental care measures into diapering care are identified; these opportunities can protect and promote sleep for hospitalized infants, enhance the diapering environment, minimize stress that infants may experience with diapering, improve infant skin health outcomes through use of evidence-based skin care practices, and foster family involvement during diapering care in the NICU. A developmental approach to diapering offers hospitalized infants regular opportunities to reach their neurodevelopmental potential.
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