O contato pele a pele com a mãe devolve a vida a um bebê prematuro

 

Um texto publicado no blog Birth of a New Earth,  mostra a história de um bebê que nasceu com 24 semanas e os médicos, por seus sinais vitais, avaliaram que não sobreviveria. A mãe, muito triste, quis ter contato e aquecer sua filha para que não ficasse com muito frio nessa hora; colocou a bebê em seu peito e logo ela começou a respirar, ficar rosada, ela começou a equilibrar seus sinais vitais. Depois de algum tempo a bebê foi para casa e hoje, segundo sua mãe, é muito viva e completamente normal!

 

Essa é uma história fantástica que mostra a importância do calor e do contato com a mãe logo que o bebê nasce, quando ele só precisa estar em contato com sua mãe!  Isso se aplica a TODO BEBÊ HUMANO – prematuros inclusive – e é uma verdade que ainda se nega pelo pensamento mecanicista de alguns profissionais. A proposta do método Kanguru é exatamente a de proporcionar esse contato pele a pele dos bebês internados com suas mães e têm apresentado ótimos resultados pelo mundo afora.

 

Esta história também serve para ilustrar e talvez fazer entender melhor o que chamo aqui no blog de fluxo energético, orgonomia, troca, vínculo mãe-bebê, contato genuíno, etc.

Trecho do texto original em inglês:

 

“…She thought she was saying a final goodbye to her premature infant Rachel who weighed only 20 oz and who was not breathing.

 

She said: “I didn’t want her to die being cold. So I lifted her out of her blanket and put her against my skin to warm her up. Her feet were so cold.

“It was the only cuddle I was going to have with her, so I wanted to remember the moment.” Then something remarkable happened. The warmth of her mother’s skin kickstarted Rachael’s heart into beating properly, which allowed her to take little breaths of her own.

 

Miss Isbister said: “We couldn’t believe it – and neither could the doctors. She let out a tiny cry.

 

“The doctors came in and said there was still no hope – but I wasn’t letting go of her. We had her blessed by the hospital chaplain, and waited for her to slip away.

 

“But she still hung on. And then amazingly the pink colour began to return to her cheeks."

 

“She literally was turning from grey to pink before our eyes, and she began to warm up too.”

 

Four months later, Rachael was allowed home weighing 8lb – the same as a newborn baby – and she has a healthy appetite.”

 

[…] When a parent holds their baby on their chest, skin-to-skin, it is referred to as Kangaroo Mother Care.

 

The benefits for all babies of KMC are that they stabilize faster with skin-to-skin care than in an incubator (very few stabilize in an incubator well during the first six hours of life). KMC babies also have stable oxygen rates and breathing thanks to the steady regulation of Mother’s respiration. The heart rate is stable (mother’s heartbeat regulates baby’s heartbeat). The temperature is most stable on the mother – in skin-to-skin care mothers chest automatically warms to warm a cold baby, and mothers core temperature drops if her baby has a temperature.

 

Sleeping within an arm’s reach of baby (as long as a parent does not smoke) also regulates all of his physiological needs in the same way ~ they are kept steady thanks to Mom’s warm, even-paced body. We lose far fewer babies to prematurity, irregularity of breathing or heartbeat after birth, and SIDS all with the natural help of skin-to-skin holding, or Kangaroo Care.”