Brad Crouch October 25, 2015: “KANGAROO care”, where a baby spends large amounts of time nestled skin-to-skin on a parent, is a key strategy helping newborns thrive, a University of Adelaide study concludes.
PhD student Zohra Lassi, from the university’s Robinson Research Institute, led a review of more than 60 reproductive, maternal, newborn and child interventions and found kangaroo care is one of six significant interventions giving infants the best start to life.
Ms Lassi said direct skin-to-skin contact promoted breastfeeding and also early recognition of danger signs and illnesses in newborns.
The study to find which strategies were most effective found three were simple and came at virtually no cost — kangaroo care, an early start to breast feeding and hygienic umbilical cord care.
Source: Treat newborn infants like joeys — give them kangaroo care, experts say | AdelaideNow
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