In the absence of the mother, the baby can be put in skin-to-skin contact with the father or with another family member to give continuity to the care.
Even if this is implemented with the intermittent method, in order for it to be effective, the hospital must provide for the opening of the intensive wards to the parents for much more than an hour a day
(it seems that in some cases this is the case).
According to the experts it is, in fact, unlikely that the mother will be able to
living a full and effective experience: arriving, changing, lying down and after half an hour going out because it's time to leave has no meaning.
It takes gradualness and time, otherwise the method won't work.