"We were able to show that an extra 20 minutes a day of skin-to-skin care for premature babies actually resulted in a 10-point increase in cognitive score. So, it's almost like a 10-point higher ...

Before kangaroo care, mothers would fill up plastic bottles with hot water and place them around their pre-term babies to keep them warm. This was hardly effective as babies could easily get burnt or ...

Kangaroo mother care has been widely used worldwide to care for premature babies, and it's gaining popularity in caring for healthy full term babies like Ali as well. It is as it sounds: Like a ...

Also in the Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) unit is Saumu Abdallah, 27, who gave birth when her pregnancy was just 7 months.

It is contact between mother and baby – also known as kangaroo care – right after birth. It significantly improves the odds of survival for premature or low-birth-weight babies, according to a ...

“We were able to show that an extra 20 minutes a day of skin-to-skin care for premature babies actually resulted in a 10-point increase in cognitive score. So, it’s almost like a 10-point ...

Absatou has been surrounded by wildlife all her life. But until recently she had never even heard the word kangaroo, let alone seen the animal. Now, she is a huge fan of one of Australia’s most famous ...

“We were able to show that an extra 20 minutes a day of skin-to-skin care for premature babies actually resulted in a 10-point increase in cognitive score. So, it’s almost like a 10-point ...

“We were able to show that an extra 20 minutes a day of skin-to-skin care for premature babies actually resulted in a 10-point increase in cognitive score. So, it’s almost like a 10-point ...