“As part of a program called BabyTime, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles recently deployed iPads in its neonatal intensive care unit to enable mothers to see their newborns and interact with hospital staff when they can’t do so in person,” Yoni Heisler reports for TUAW.
“Cedars-Sinai notes that approximately 20 to 30 percent of new mothers who undergo C-sections’do not feel well enough to travel from their bed in the Labor and Delivery unit to the NICU for the first 24 to 48 hours,'” Heisler reports. “With the iPad, however, these mothers can now see their newborn and, just as importantly, interact with the nurses and doctors keeping an eye on their baby.”
Heisler reports, “As one would expect, the way the program works is pretty simple. When a newborn is admitted into the NICU, one iPad is placed next to the baby’s incubator while another is delivered to the baby’s mother.”
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Nice.
I’m sure we will use a similar setup for infant monitoring at our home.
Been there, done that. Our monitor signal did not reach across the back yard but the wifi did. Was out back with the neighbors, baby was asleep, used two iPhones with facetime, just have to mute your phone so it does not wake up the baby.
My wife used her husband to stay in contact with the newborns. Neither of our girls ever left my sight in the hospital.
How long before babies are hooked up to machine fed umbilicals like the ones you see in ‘The Matrix’ leaving the mother to be just the womb that births the baby and nothing more.
Axlotl tanks?
Should attach iPhones to newborns so no more ‘switched at birth’ accidents. ‘Find my iPhone’ becomes ‘Find my Baby’!
I thought that’s what the implants were for…oops…not supposed to mention those…forget it….
Every other mammal on the planet will happily breast feed offspring for free, no electronics required.
BLN would pay for that privilege!