Rooming-in

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Rooming-in is a practice in hospitals and nursing homes that enables parents to be admitted to the same room as their child and thus to be continuously present with them. Based primarily on the knowledge of attachment theory , this serves to prevent psychological hospitalism in children.

Rooming-in allows mothers and fathers or other caregivers to live with a sick child in the hospital or on the infant ward and to spend the night there. This prevents symptoms of deprivation and psychological hospitalism.

Situation in Germany

Since 1969, when the joint accommodation and admission of mother and child was offered for the first time in the Federal Republic of Germany at the Herdecke community hospital and in the same year in Munich , this has now become a daily practice. Previously, in Mainz and Würzburg, there was already an offer of temporary accommodation for the newborn in the room of the woman who had recently given birth in the 1950s. But as early as the 1920s there were gynecological clinics with rooming-in in the German Reich , which reversed the National Socialist family policy.

Also on maternity wards sits rooming-in , more and more by and offered all hospitals in Germany in 80 percent already 1984th In this way, the wishes of the parents are better met and at the same time the bond between parent and child and breastfeeding are promoted.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Risk factors and the course of postpartum psychiatric diseases, inaugural dissertation by Stefanie Gestrich, 2005 at the Charité in Berlin, page 46 ff .: http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/diss/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/FUDISS_derivate_000000006463/04_gestrich .pdf
  2. Dealing with the feelings of children in the hospital - A model for recording children's needs, Alexander Weber, Grin-Verlag, September 2007, page 32, ISBN 3-638-74304-7
  3. Sabine Bode: The forgotten generation. The war children break their silence , Munich: Piper, 4th exp. Edition 2011, p. 151.
  4. Current. The Lexikon der Gegenwart, Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1984, page 546, ISBN 3-88379-030-3

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