Kangaroo Care
Parent holding the baby skin to skin. During kangaroo care, the baby is placed on the parent's chest, dressed in a diaper and sometimes a cap.
What is Kangaroo Care?
By Robin Elise Weiss, LCCE, About.com Guide
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Kangaroo Care: A form of skin to skin contact for pre-term / small infants who are clinically stable. The infant is held in an upright position, skin-to-skin between the mother's breasts and kept warm.
What is Kangaroo Care?
Kangaroo Care is a practice that originated in Colombia in the late 1970s that has been adopted worldwide because of the advantages for premature babies.
Kangaroo Care - An effective technique in which the baby is placed skin-to-skin on their mother's or father's chest to promote growth and bonding. This technique is commonly used in premature infants that are not in critical condition.
Kangaroo care
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Cuddling with your baby directly against your skin, called 'kangaroo care,' is an especially good way to bond with your baby. It won't be long before you start seeing all the things that you may have seen if the baby had been born full-term.
If the babies are in hospital spend as much time as you can with the babies and express breast milk to support their development. In some places you can do kangaroo care and skin to skin contact, ...
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