Caregivers at an institution for motherless infants in rural Tanzania participated in focus group interviews and participant observations. This paper aims at describing how they perceive infancy, caring and sensitivity in their everyday context. It adds knowledge from Tanzania about institutional infant care and the concept of sensitivity in caregiving, based on an approach sensitive to culture and context. The main result is that the caregivers are most concerned with fulfilling the infants’ physical needs. They defined infants’ social and emotional needs in a variety of ways and gave accounts about what sensitivity in caring for infants meant in their context. They also described their workload, their burdens and their strengths, and demonstrated shortcomings in fulfilling the infants’ social and emotional needs. Interventions to promote emotional and social support in addition to fulfilling physical needs are crucial.

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婴儿期和关怀

坦桑尼亚农村地区一家无母婴机构的看护人参加了焦点小组访谈和参与者观察。本文旨在描述他们在日常生活中如何看待婴儿，关怀和敏感性。它基于对文化和背景敏感的方法，增加了坦桑尼亚有关机构婴儿照料的知识以及照料中的敏感性概念。主要结果是看护者最关心满足婴儿的身体需求。他们以多种方式定义了婴儿的社交和情感需求，并说明了照看婴儿的敏感性在他们的上下文中意味着什么。他们还描述了他们的工作量，负担和优势，并表现出在满足婴儿的社会和情感需求方面的不足。