I would suggest it is because while their main experience of me was either neutral or unpleasant, their experience of their parents was of ongoing care, love, compassion, feeding, warmth, and so on.
Providing extra support to LBW infants regarding feeding, warmth and growth monitoring has great potential to reduce neonatal mortality rate and promote survival with good quality of life[ 7].
The Chayets have put $88,000 into energy-saving windows and $100,000 into a heat pump that feeds off warmth in the ground.
This includes provision of warmth, feeding support, safe oxygen therapy and effective phototherapy with prevention and treatment of infections.
According to this framework, care for LBW starts with recognizing them, then they are given special warmth, feeding, hygiene and surveillance for infections.
Extra effort to improve feeding, attention to warmth and early treatment of infection was noted effective in neonatal death reduction [ 25– 30].
However, most deaths in moderately preterm babies and in those born at term but whose growth have been restricted in utero can be prevented with extra attention to warmth, feeding, and prevention or early treatment of infections [ 26, 27].
Literature on newborn health shows that morbidity and mortality among LBW depends on recognition of LBW, facility and home care for the LBW newborns (special feeding, special warmth, special hygiene), surveillance for infections and appropriate care seeking [ 14].
Financing challenges were also identified for the most basic provision of care for all babies, even the basic supplies for warmth and feeding support.
In addition, ACS alone cannot be a magic bullet; the preterm infant still requires a minimum of supportive care including warmth and feeding support, and if <32 weeks gestation is more likely to require oxygen therapy and respiratory support.
McIlroy feeds off the warmth he gets from other people through eye contact or the exchange of smiles.
