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- Title
THE CLINICAL PROCESS OF RELACTATION AND THE ADOPTION PROCESS MERGED WITH SPEECH-LANGUAGE THERAPY: A REPORT ON A CASE STUDY.
- Authors
da Conceição Carneiro Pessoa de Santana, Maria; Moroni, Bárbara Cavalcante Silveira; de Lima Alpino, Luana; de Almeida Porto, Vanessa Fernandes
- Abstract
When the mother of a newborn dies, someone has to take on the role as the baby's mother. A multiprofessional team may help in choosing someone and preparing that person to act as such. The speech therapy concurrent with the adoption process may contribute to the lactation process and also to the connection between mother and baby. The purpose of the study is to report the speech therapy role concurrent with the adoption process in a public maternity hospital in the state of Alagoas - Brazil. This is a report of an intervention aimed at a preterm newborn whose mother died soon after giving birth. The follow-up was performed according to the three stages of the Kangaroo Mother Method and was carried out through interventions aimed at the foster mother/newborn relationship, as well as guidance to the multiprofessional team. The preterm newborn referred onto the case report was discharged with no sensory and oral motor changes; the child fed from mother's breast and was given complement by means of relactation, thus suggesting the importance of speech therapy intervention in this case. The newborn was discharged presenting the stomatognathic system structures in relation to posture, mobility and conformation within the normal range; present oral reflexes, strength and pace suitable in non-nutritive sucking; easily to breastfeed, and receiving via the adjunct prescribed relactation. The speech therapist is also critical to that process, because that is the professional responsible for developing and improving one of the main functions of the newborn: suction.
- Subjects
BREASTFEEDING; SPEECH therapy for children; PREMATURE infants; ADOPTION; LACTATION; FOSTER mothers; MATERNAL mortality; STOMATOGNATHIC system; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Revista CEFAC, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 6, p2048
- ISSN
1516-1846
- Publication type
Case Study