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Kangaroo mother care (KMC), [1] which involves skin-to-skin contact (SSC), is an intervention to care for premature or low birth weight (LBW) infants. The technique and intervention is the recommended evidence-based care for LBW infants by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2003.
Nathalie Charpak (born 1955) is a French and Colombian pediatrician. As the founder and director of the Kangaroo Foundation, and associate researcher of the Pontifical Xavierian University, her research focuses on the care of low-birth weight preterm infants and the application of kangaroo mother care.
Lawn believes that kangaroo care could prevent death and disability caused by preterm birth and is an important foundation for intensive care that is family centred. [25] In 2014 she studied preterm birth worldwide, which is now the number one killer of young children under five worldwide.
Bergman is the founder of the International Network of Kangaroo Mother Care (INK), [8] and a member of the advisory board of La Leche League, South Africa, [9] the Breastfeeding Association of SA, the International Lactation Consultants Association, [10] Milk Matters (Human Milk Bank, Cape Town), [11] and a Trustee of the South African Kangaroo Mother Care Foundation.
A neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), also known as an intensive care nursery (ICN), is an intensive care unit (ICU) specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants. The NICU is divided into several areas, including a critical care area for babies who require close monitoring and intervention, an intermediate care area for infants ...
Solanum aviculare is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 4 m (13 ft) tall. The leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, 80–250 mm (3.1–9.8 in) long and 10–35 mm (0.39–1.38 in) wide, or sometimes lobed, broadly elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 150–300 mm (5.9–11.8 in) long with lobes 10–100 mm (0.39–3.94 in) long and 5–20 mm (0.20 ...
Vinod Kumar Paul is an Indian pediatrician and physician scientist currently serving as Member, NITI Aayog.He earlier served as professor of neonatology at the Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi from 1985 to 2020.
A baby being fed using the Haberman Feeder. The upright sitting position allows gravity to help the baby swallow the milk. The Haberman Feeder (a registered trademark) is a speciality bottle named after its inventor Mandy Haberman for babies with impaired sucking ability (for example due to cleft lip and palate or Mobius syndrome).