单词 | rooming-in |
释义 | rooming-inn. Originally U.S. Originally and chiefly: the accommodation together in a hospital of a newborn baby and its mother so that she can care for it as much as possible. Subsequently also: a similar arrangement for a parent and sick child. Originally and frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > confinement to or accommodation in > specific rooming-in1943 casevac1953 1943 A. Gesell & F. L. Ilg Infant & Child Culture Today viii. 82 We might then suggest a rooming-in arrangement which would bring both bassinet and baby into the mother's room. 1947 Jackson & Thoms in Connecticut State Med. Jrnl. 11 175/1 Rooming-in is a term applied to that form of hospitalization where mother and newborn baby room together and in which the mother takes as much care of the baby as possible. 1960 F. W. Goodrich Maternity vii. 103 Most ideal rooming-in set-ups make some provision for the baby to be returned to the nursery when the mother so desires. 1965 Nursing Times 5 Feb. 182/1 The siting of a nursery far distant from the wards added to the difficulties of the staff in spite of the fact that rooming-in was practised. 1974 G. B. Lipkin Psychosocial Aspects of Maternal-child Nursing x. 56/1 The nurses in the rooming-in unit stress their function as instructors in child care. 1978 Who's Who 1934/1 A ‘Rooming-In’ hospital for mother nursing of infants and small children with congenital defects requiring plastic surgery. 1994 Guardian 29 June ii. 8/3 What sadist devised the notion of ‘rooming in’, placing exhausted mothers with their babies 24 hours a day? 2004 J. K. De Pree Body Story vi. 120 If you want to keep your newborn with you, you can choose ‘rooming in’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1943 |
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