Kangaroo method: what it is and how to do it
The kangaroo method, also called “kangaroo mother method” or “skin-to-skin contact”, is an alternative that was created by pediatrician Edgar Rey Sanabria in 1979 in Bogotá, Colombia, to reduce hospitalization time and encourage breastfeeding in newborns. -low birth weight babies. Edgar observed that when they were placed skin-to-skin with their parents or family members, newborns […]
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