Pastoral care of the premature baby

T A Purvis-Smith1

  • 1University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA.

A chaplain shares his learning in his attempts to deliver meaningful pastoral care to premature babies in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a hospital. Explicates some of the parallels between pastoral communication with adults and with babies, noting especially the necessity of recognizing the need for creative modification of adult modes of care.