Rooming-in

Rooming- in is a practice in hospitals and nursing homes, where it is allowed parents to be included in the same room with their child and thus to be present continuously at him. Based primarily on the findings of attachment theory, this is for the prevention of mental hospitalism in children. Since 1969, when it was in Munich for the first time offered the co-location and recording of mother and child in the Federal Republic of Germany, it has become the daily practice followed. Previously, there was already in the 1950s in Mainz and Würzburg, the offer of temporary accommodation of the newborn in the room the woman in childbed. But already in the 1920s there had been in the German Reich women's clinics with rooming-in, what the Nazi family policy made ​​it back.

Rooming- in allows mothers and fathers or other caregivers to live with a sick child in the hospital or in the nursery and to stay there also. This deprivation symptoms and the mental hospitalism is prevented.

Also on maternity wards consists rooming- in more and more by and was offered in 80 percent of all hospitals in Germany in 1984. Thus the desire of the parents is better suited while promoting the bond between parent and child as well as breastfeeding.