In neonatal intensive care, the Nidcap method promotes growth and nervous system growth and development

There Neonatal intensive care (TIN) It is a complicated place, where the link between newborn and parent is hard to the test, by the machines and the therapies that can create a painful distance. And, precisely to reduce this distance, the Italian Society of Neonatology (SIN) promotes the method NIDCAP (Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program)a program dedicated to premature or born infants with pathologies that require intensive care, which focuses on the newborn and his family, reduces stress and promotes growth and nervous system development.

What is Nidcap?

The Nidcap It is an assistance program, Born in the seventies at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School Thanks to the work of the psychologist Heidelise Alswhich proposes individualized care, which change from child to child and every day adapt to the development phase of the newborn, welcomed in an environment capable of recreating the sensory stimuli that he would have received in the womb.

There Nidcap training provides neuro-behavioral observations which become an essential tool, a sort of language through which the child expresses his needs, reactions to the environment and care. This attention to observation is intertwined with the involvement of the family, a fundamental pillar of Nidcap, which does not limit itself to providing assistance, but implies active listening and constant collaboration, recognizing parents as experts in their child. Today, in the world, there are 33 Nidcap training centers, of which 21 in Europe and two in Italy (Modena and Rimini).

«The path Nidcap of the Rimini Tin It started 15 years ago; For more than 3 years we have been working as an Italian training center with the trainer Natascia Simeone. In recent years, the ability to listen to children and families has gradually grown, the participation of families in the care, the collaboration with the volunteer sector, the care of the beauty of the environment of neonatal intensive therapy « , says the doctor Gina Ancora, vice -president Sin, director of the Neonatal Intensive Care and HEALTH HEALTH HEALTH DIRECTION AND Director of the Nidcap Training Center, Rimini Infirm Hospital.
«This approach has improved the psychomotor development of children, the well-being of parents and the parents-child attachment. The alliance with the Sin, with the Task Force on European care standards, with the Sin Studio Care group are fundamental so that Nidcap becomes the standard of care in all Italian TIN « .

The Modena TinInstead, he started the Nidcap path in 2002, obtaining certification in 2013. « Nidcap philosophy focuses on the humanization of careencouraging the Active presence of parentsthe interaction with the newborn, spontaneous sleep and the use of sweet and containing touches, as well as promoting movement and adequate posture « , continues the professor Alberto Berardi, Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Policlinico di Modena Hospital and University Hospital and Director of the Nidcap Trainer Center in Modena. «In fact, in the weeks after the preterm birth, the brain grows rapidly thanks to the food and positive stimuli of the environment. Cerebral plasticity is at most, promoting future development. The Nidcap method allows you to improve the development of the baby through the individualized care of its needs « .