Online Mother-Baby Yoga With Preterm Infants and Their Mothers

The Effects of Online Mother-Baby Yoga on Preterm Infants and Their Mothers

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of internet-based mother-baby yoga on preterm infants and their mothers.

Mother-infant pairs were enrolled in the study. Interventions applied as group sessions (maximum of 5 mother-infant pairs) for 6 weeks, once a week. Yoga sessions Before-after evaluations were done for both mother and infant outcomes.

Inclusion Criteria:

• The infants whose gestational age between 32 0/7-36 6/7 week and corrected age's older than 6 weeks and their mothers
• Caregivers who have at least one smartphone or/and laptop or/and Ipad
• Mothers and their babies who accept to register to the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• The infants who have a severe pathological sign in cranial screening
• The infants who had IVH
• The infants who have congenital abnormalities
• The infants who have a metabolic or genetic diagnosis
• The infants who have hearing or visual impairment
• The mothers who had chronic depression history and/or mental retardation
• The mothers who have a neurological or orthopedic diagnosis to the contraindication of exercise
• The mothers who are pregnant