Effectiveness of kangaroo-mother care on breastfeeding.
Kangaroo Mother Care is a non-invasive, cost effective, therapeutic motherly based care and its promotes breast-feeding, maintain thermal stability, promotes physiological and behavioral effects and promotes weight gain, reduce the length of hospital stays also enhance the humanization, and bonding between the mother and the preterm infants.
Sources of data were papers about Kangaroo Mother Care published from 1993 to 2004 were consulted, selected in Medline and lilacs as well as books, thesis and technical publications from the Brazilian Health Department. The findings were since its first description; Kangaroo Mother Care has been extensively studied.
Jill has been involved with Dr Nils Bergman in supporting and promoting Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) for 24 years. As a teacher and counsellor she wants all parents to be given the Neuroscience of caring for their newborn babies in normal non-medical English. She has written and produced 4 DVDs on KMC.
THE EXPERIENCES OF CARERS WHO ARE IMPLEMENTING OR HAVE IMPLEMENTED KANGAROO MOTHER CARE (KMC) AT THE R. K. KHAN HOSPITAL. A Dissertation submitted to University ofNatal - Durban III Partial fulfillment of The requirements for the Degree ofMaster Curationis (M.Cur) By JAYALUXMI REDDY Supervisor: DrPatricia McInerney September 2003.
Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a method of holding a small nappy neonate in skin-to-skin contact, prone upright on the maternal chest. KMC promotes many health effects for both mother and baby, including but not limited to a decrease in morbidity and mortality, and increase in breastfeeding, weight gain and mother-baby bonding (4,5).
Kangaroo Mother Care Edwards, Anna 2012. Kangaroo Mother Care. (Taught Course Thesis). Bachelor, Cardiff University. Item availability restricted. PDF Restricted to Registered users only Download (193kB) PDF - Supplemental Material Restricted to Repository staff only Download (85kB).
Abstract and Figures In the past three decades, kangaroo mother care (KMC) has been established as a safe and effective method of infant care, with the potential for improving the survival of.