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[Daytime rooming-in--a contribution to family-oriented obstetrics (author's transl)]
Rooming-in of mother and child during the puerperium is an essential step towards family-oriented obstetrics. However, the setting-up of full rooming-in wards is often prevented by problems of organisation, personnel, cost and space. It is here where the reorganisation of conventional maternity wards to daytime rooming-in wards can be regarded as a feasible alternative, since it requires low investment cost and moderate expenditure of effort required for satisfactory working. At the Freiburg University Gynaecological Hospital, 1028 women were asked to choose between a conventional ward and a daytime rooming-in ward. The article reports on experience collected during the reorganisation of this ward as well as on the behaviour, reactions and requests on the part of the mothers. The high degree of positive acceptance as well as the easy adaptability of this maternity ward system to existing conditions, favour widespread introduction of the daytime rooming-in system.
Rooming-in of mother and child during the puerperium is an essential step towards family-oriented obstetrics. However, the setting-up of full rooming-in wards is often prevented by problems of organisation, personnel, cost and space. It is here where the reorganisation of conventional maternity wards to daytime rooming-in wards can be regarded as a feasible alternative, since it requires low investment cost and moderate expenditure of effort required for satisfactory working. At the Freiburg University Gynaecological Hospital, 1028 women were asked to choose between a conventional ward and a daytime rooming-in ward. The article reports on experience collected during the reorganisation of this ward as well as on the behaviour, reactions and requests on the part of the mothers. The high degree of positive acceptance as well as the easy adaptability of this maternity ward system to existing conditions, favour widespread introduction of the daytime rooming-in system.