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At Manama (where birth skin-to-skin contact started), phototherapy was also done this way.
The box has lights shining on the baby, and mother!
The height of the box can be adjusted using the pegs on the side, to get
optimal temperature and exposure., the round side holes allowed for
inspection.
Sheets in summer, and blankets in winter, covered all the sides. Mother's
head can extend beyond the top side cover, or be inside, in which case her
eyes are covered !!!
This picture is posed ... only 3 out of 126 skin-to-skin babies ever developed jaundice. This box was used mainly to treat the fullterm babies that developed jaundice, and could be used without mother present.
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