A midwife from Scotland has developed a game-changing product aimed at improving neonatal care. Stacey Boyle's scrubs for birth partners include a kangaroo-style pouch that facilitates crucial skin-to-skin contact for newborns immediately after birth, benefiting babies delivered via C-section. This innovation helps regulate temperature, stabilize heart rate, and support breathing, while also facilitating early feeding and improving long-term health outcomes.
A Scots midwife has invented a "game-changing" new product that could transform neonatal care and improve outcomes for tiny newborn babies.
This has been proven to regulate temperature, stabilise heartbeat, support steady breathing, and even help with early feeding, as well as improve long term health outcomes. She added: "We know how good skin-to-skin can be, but it can also be challenging because of the size of the theatre table. Most women were uncomfortable trying to do it and it can be unsafe for babies when mums are lying flat.
Marianne said: "We made three different prototypes and we found the most effective design to be one where we used a recycled NHS fleece jacket as the covering material with a secure Velcro opening which was altered onto newly purchased scrubs. "In our previous procedures, skin to skin contact was not made with our babies until I was in recovery approximately 30 minutes after they had been born.
NEONATAL CARE MIDWIFE SCRUBS KANGAROO POUCH SKIN-TO-SKIN CONTACT
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