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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.
In 1995, Bergman brought it to South Africa and in 2000, it became the official policy for care of premature babies in the hospitals of the Western Cape province. [5] Bergman contributed to the naming and formal description of Kangaroo Mother Care together with 30 other researchers, [6] and the subsequent WHO guidelines. [7]
Kangaroo care, in which the baby's bare body rests against the parent's bare chest, with or without a baby sling, has shown clear benefits to premature and ill infants. [11] Studies of parent-child attachment, parental satisfaction and infant crying point to babywearing as a satisfactory arrangement for both parents and baby.
Kangaroo care by father in Cameroon. Skin-to-skin contact (SSC), sometimes also called kangaroo care, is a technique of newborn care where babies are kept chest-to-chest and skin-to-skin with a parent, typically their mother or possibly the father. This means without the shirt or undergarments on the chest of both the baby and parent.
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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.
The Santa Cruz kangaroo rat, more closely related to chipmunks and gophers than kangaroos or rats, had not been spotted in the area since the 1940s. The Santa Cruz kangaroo rat, more closely ...
[47]: 502–545 Additionally, skin-to-skin (Kangaroo Care) has been shown to be safe and beneficial to both mother and baby. [47]: 502–545 Kangaroo Care stabilizes newborn premature infants' vital signs, such as their heart rate, providing a naturally warm environment that helps them regulate their temperature.