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The NBO as a Nursing Intervention
by Leslie W. Sanders, RN, Ellen B. Buckner, DSN, RN |
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From Interactive Regulation to the Development of Self Regulatory Processes in Pre-term Infants:
A Preliminary Report
by Grazyna Kmita, PhD and Eliza Kiepura, MA |
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 From the Editor: This year marks the publication of "The newborn as a person: enabling healthy infant development worldwide", edited by myself, Bonnie Petrauskas and Berry Brazelton and published by John Wiley and Sons. This edited volume, which contains reports from our colleagues from around the world, is a testament to the impact of the NBAS on research and practice everywhere and is also a tribute to the powerful influence Berry Brazelton has had on our field and on our lives. The Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) system is part of that legacy and is being used extensively in clinical settings across the world. This issue contains one of the first studies to examine the effects of the NBO on parent-child interactions in the postnatal period. In this research report, Nurse researchers, Leslie Sanders and Ellen Buckner demonstrate that the NBO can increase first-time mother's understanding of their baby's competencies and can help them learn how to respond to and interact with their infants. Nurses who participated in this study overwhelmingly identified a need among their patient populations for interventions that enhance engagement and help mothers learn about their infants and unanimously believed the NBO would be effective in doing so.
From the Editor continued
Guest Editor, M. Alejandra Viloria
M. Alejandra Viloria, has been working at the Brazelton Institute since the Fall of 2008. She studied business at the Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela and received a Master of Science in Management at Arthur D. Little School of Management and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.
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Urbi et Orbi includes brief reports, previews of conferences, and/or broad descriptions of activities related to working with infants and their families from settings around the world.
 Australia:
The National Conference of the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health and the Australasian Marce Society
October 1 - 3, at the University of Melbourne
 Belgium:
Conference: The First International Congress on the Parent and Baby Unit
November 19 - 20, at University Center Tivoli, La Louviere
 England:
Training: Newborn Behavioral Observations
April 7 - 8, at Clare College, Cambridge
 Ireland:
Parental Ethnotheories among Immigrant and Irish Parents of Infants in Ireland
by Elizabeth Nixon, Sheila Greene, Imelda Coyne, J. Kevin Nugent
 Portugal:
Working with Families and Their Newborn Babies in a Portuguese Maternity Hospital
by Araújo Pedrosa, Sofia Gameiro, Maria Cristina Canavarro
 USA:
12th Annual Touchpoints National Forum
April 24 - 25, at the Radisson Hotel Boston
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These field notes represent the work of practitioners from different disciplines and from a wide range of clinical settings. As the title Ab Origine, suggests, this section offers a forum for practitioners to enable them to share their experiences with readers, with a view to stimulating further interest and discussion on the development of innovative approaches to working with infants and families.
Kathleen Belliveau, OTR/L
Massachusetts
Raimis Fair, RN
Palm Beach County, Florida
Sue Marincel, RN
Bayfield, Wisconsin
Gehan Roberts, MB, BS, MPH
Boston, Massachusetts
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The
editors encourage comments, suggestions, news, and invite contributions
from our readers.
Please write to:
Ab
Initio, Brazelton Institute
Division of Developmental Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston
1295 Boylston Street, Suite 320
Boston, MA 02215, USA
Telephone: (857) 218-4354 • Fax: (617) 730-0074
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