title: Complete rooming-in care of newborn infants.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In Kyung Hee East-West Neo Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, efforts to raise rooming-in care success rate have been undertaken since when the hospital was established in 2006. We intended to analyze our experience over the past 3 years of period and to discuss the advantages of rooming-in.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed the rooming-in practice rate, failure rate, and the breast feeding rate. Subjects were 860 normal healthy neonates from June 2006 to June 2009.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among these 860 cases, 83 babies were required separation out of rooming-in in the middle of the course. Among these 83 cases, 70 cases had to stop the course due to poor condition of babies and 13 cases due to maternal condition. 70 cases of infant's causes consist of 68 cases of NICU admission and 2 cases of poor feeding support. The other 13 cases of separation include refusal by maternal condition. Therefore the success rate of rooming-in for the last 3 years was 90.3%, that is 777 cases among the total 860 cases. The percentage of exclusive breast feeding was 64%, that of mixed feeding with breast and formula feeding was 25%, and formula feeding only was 11%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We experienced successful rooming-in care for the last 3 years. Nursery facilities should educate and encourage the advantages of rooming-in, including the good formation of attachment between mother and infant, emotional stability, protection from infection, and increased breast feeding rate so that rooming-in care can be fully established.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Kyung Hee University East-West Neo Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Yoo Min
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Kang Hoon
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Young Mi
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jin Sun
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Ji Young
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Hyun Joo
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Seol
authors.forename: Yong Sung
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Chong Woo
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Bae