Given the simplicity
of the two protocols, volunteers and parents could be given demonstrations
and could then provide cost-effective stimulation sessions to facilitate
weight gain and earlier discharge in a larger group of preterm infants.
This stimulation would also be expected to have longer-term effects as it
has in other similar stimulation studies, with the weight gain advantage
continuing into later infancy (8 months) and mental development also
being superior for the stimulated infants at that time [19]