Traditionally the experience of having a baby hospitalized in an intensive care unit is traumatic for parents and probably also for babies. It is characterized by separation of mother and baby and feeding with breastmilk substitutes. This book suggests that neonatal intensive care is more beneficial if babies are hospitalized together with their mothers, provided with extensive skin-to-skin contact, with as de-medicalized an approach as possible, and fed breastmilk.

Re-establishing women, their parents and their babies, as the key players in perinatal care is the primary focus of this text. An explosive book from an explosive partnership. Essential reading for both prfessionals and families.