Bakgrund: Under de första veckorna efter ett barns födelse möter föräldrarna flera olikarepresentanter för hälso- och sjukvård. De ska hjälpa familjen till en god start på föräldraskapet ochen säker omvårdnad om barnet. Det förekommer att föräldrar får olika och motstridiga råd om varoch hur barnet bör sova. Samsovning i föräldrarnas säng uppmuntras av vissa för att främjaamningen, och avråds ibland från, för att förebygga plötslig spädbarnsdöd (SIDS). Syfte: Att belysaaktuell kunskap för att kunna ge vetenskapligt underbyggd information till föräldrar om fördelaroch risker med att samsova med sitt spädbarn.

Aim: The aim of this study was to examine health professionals´ experiences of giving advice regarding sleep to parents of infants and to perform and evaluate an intervention in the form of introducing information about the sleep of infants.Method: The study was designed as an intervention study with a qualitative approach where data was collected from two focus groups in the form of interviews. The intervention consisted of the information material Sugen på sömn. There were five participants whom three of them participated in the second interview. The interviews were processed by content analysis.Results: Health professionals´ experience of giving advice on sleep was summarized in three themes. The experiences of giving advice in interaction with parents, health professional themselves experienced the power to influence the parents with the advice they gave, while the parents' previous experience and knowledge impacted on how the advice came into practice.

Aim: Compare occurrences of first-time-events reported by mothers and fathers with children at high tech NICU according to kangaroo-mother-care method in two university hospitals. Method: Descriptive, quantitative design. Fourty-five couples of parents, with premature children born and cared for at university hospitals in Uppsala or Örebro, answered questionnaires about first-time-events: interaction-events, measures-of-care-events and sleeping-place-events. Results: All differences regarding the children?s age at first-time-events showed Uppsala-children to be younger than Örebro-children. Interaction-events were reported first in children?s lives, measures-of-care-events and sleeping-place-events later.