Rooming-in is the practice followed in hospitals and maternity ward where the baby's
crib is kept by the side of the mother's bed.
This arrangement gives an opportunity for the parents to know their baby. The
bond
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* Bond (finance), a type of debt security
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between the parent and the child is well established in roomed-in babies. There is a better chance of success with
breast-feeding
Breastfeeding, or nursing, is the process by which human breast milk is fed to a child. Breast milk may be from the breast, or may be expressed by hand or pumped and fed to the infant. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that brea ...
in roomed-in babies. Parents do not have the fear of baby-switching while roomed-in. Rooming-in is one of the components of
baby-friendly hospitals, devised by
WHO
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* Who?, one of the Five Ws in journalism
* World Health Organization
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