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Analysis of the repercussion of the Program of Sibling Visits to the Newborn Babies in NICU: "They remembered me!"

This article analyse with an exploration form the repercussion of the authors observations and dates of some interviews with staff and parents during the activities from the Sibling’s Assistance to the Newborns in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Program " They remembered me!" which is occurring for already eight years in a private clinic in Rio de Janeiro. The observation of the sibling’s visits, interviews with the staff and parents during the period of the baby’s hospitalization and after his discharge from hospital made possible the detection of different behaviours in the age of the sibling’s and accordant with the parents the siblings participation had improved a subtle beginning for a fraternal bond, helping to understand the truly situation that the whole family was living, demystifying fantasies in the causes of the newborn admission, reducing the family anxiety providing better trust to the siblings and family. These data lead us to notice that this recommended intervention makes it easier to establish the humanized process in the neonatal intensive care.

Intensive neonatal care; Humanized care; Family care; Fraternal bond


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