Preemie pain relief study - LIP

jxd215

My LOs were lucky enough that we needed no NICU time, but I thought this was interesting and might be useful to those with preemies:

News article

Original study

 

devinjonesrn

Very interesting!  Thanks for sharing!

JosiePosy

Makes sense to me. They gave our kids sugar water (I think they called it sweeties) on the pacifier whenever they had to do heel sticks or change IV sites. A had to have a PICC put in as well at one point, and they did it again at that time. It really did seem to help.

They were also big proponents of kangaroo care. I was able to touch them right away. As soon as they were stable enough at 3 days old, I was finally allowed to start holding them for about 30 minutes at a time. Gradually that worked up to an hour at a time. DH was encouraged to kangaroo often as well. It was the one thing other than pumping that we could do for them. We felt so helpless sometimes otherwise.