Grandmas doing kangaroo care?

[aerorunner80]

Has anyone run into a situation where the grandma asks to do kangaroo care without getting permission from the mom?

What are your feelings on this?

Personally, I would not allow it as the nurse unless I ask mom if it's alright. To me this is a very private special bonding experience that is best between mom and baby or dad and baby if dad is comfortable with it.

[aerorunner80, ADN, BSN, MSN, APRN]

HIPPA is a main issue with allowing other family members to visit without the parents being present.

We allow the parents to put 4 people on a list that can come into the unit to visit without them there. These people are issued different color bands and are not allowed to bring in visitors themselves, only mom and dad can bring visitors in with them.

How this works is that we tell the parents before they put names down that the people who get the bands have access to all information about the babies and if they don't trust these people, don't put them on the list.

We have very little problems about it.

As nurses, we are guarded with what information we give out to anyone but mom and dad anyway. If a banded visitor asks how the baby is doing, we will tell them the very basics such as there have been no changes but we don't get into detail with them like we do parents. From my standpoint, it's an issue of respect.

Yes these people CAN get information but it doesn't mean we HAVE to give it out to them.

[NicuGal, MSN, RN]

We only give info to parents. We make this pretty clear when we give the extended visitation rights. We can tell them a general had a good/bad day, and what the weight is and how much they are eating. But, like I said, we have had residents and fellows give visitors info, not the parents. We got dinged for it. Easy to do. But easy to avoid...everyone asks to see the parents bands, if they don't have a parent band, no info.