Conveying the message about optimal infant positions.
The purpose of this study was to determine a convenient communication tool to help educate parents about varying the positions of their new babies. Eighty-eight percent of babies whose parents had received a brochure explaining the importance of early and regularly scheduled "tummy time" were placed in the prone position more than one time a day. Seventeen of 34 babies were started prone before the second week of life. The average Peabody Developmental Motor Scales-2 locomotion score of the babies regularly placed in prone was significantly higher than that of the babies not regularly placed in prone when tested at 6 months and again at 18 months of age.
Jennings
Judy T
JT
905 Maple Ridge Court, Fairfield, OH 45014, USA.
Sarbaugh
Barbara G
BG
Payne
Nicholas S
NS
D002657:Child Development; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care / Q000379:methods*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010174:Pamphlets; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D011187:Posture; D016684:Prone Position; D014741:Video Recording