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MONTREAL, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers advise parents to read aloud to their newborns in hospital intensive care units.
Principal investigator Jan Lariviere of The Montreal Children's Hospital and colleagues said the bonding of parents and their newborns placed in intensive care units would not be completely interrupted if parents were allowed to spend time reading to their babies.
The experience not only helps the baby recognize his or her parents' voices but helps the parents bond with the baby.
The study, published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, found 70 percent of the 120 parents who read to their critical care newborns felt closer to their babies.
Most of the parents reported feeling more in control, more intimacy and more normalcy, the researchers said. Parents who read to their children in the hospital were three times as likely to continue the practice at home, Lariviere added.
"As health professionals, we must give parents the tools they need to cope with the situation," Lariviere said in a statement.
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