Hush Little Baby — Promise of the Eat, Sleep, Console Approach

“ Hush little baby, don’t say a word …” This traditional lullaby is symbolic of our attempts to offer an appropriate intervention for infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. The incidence of this condition, which affects newborns after maternal opioid exposure during pregnancy, has increas...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 388; no. 25; pp. 2391 - 2392
Main Author Barfield, Wanda D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 22.06.2023
Subjects
Addiction
Babies
Clinical Medicine
Drug withdrawal
Hispanic people
Hospital-Based Clinical Medicine
Hospitals
Infants
Minority & ethnic groups
Mothers
Narcotics
Neonatal abstinence syndrome
Neonates
Neonatology
Newborn babies
Opioids
Pediatrics
Pregnancy
Psychiatry
Quality improvement
Sleep
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Summary:“ Hush little baby, don’t say a word …” This traditional lullaby is symbolic of our attempts to offer an appropriate intervention for infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. The incidence of this condition, which affects newborns after maternal opioid exposure during pregnancy, has increased substantially in recent years, 1 and more holistic approaches are being sought to support the care of mother, infant, family, and community. 2 In this issue of the Journal , Young et al. 3 report the results of a large trial assessing a nonpharmacologic strategy — the Eat, Sleep, Console approach — for the treatment of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. . . .
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMe2304989