"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 IQ at 12 months of age," Scala said. ...
there are some things both parents can do to feel a little more in control and help their baby get stronger—including practicing kangaroo care. We’ll walk you through what kangaroo care is, the benefits of kangaroo care for premature babies, and how a little (or a lot of) skin-to-ski...
While SSC is a common practice worldwide, barriers still remain. These include concerns that infants might get cold or small premature babies are unstable and might not tolerate this handling, leading to compromised heart function or unstable blood pressure. However in this study, ...
A number of premature babies are born every single hour. After birth Premature babies are often kept in incubators for longer terms, in order to develop like a full term baby. The incubator keeps the baby warm and ensures the breathing and heart rate become normal with time. In third world...
Designed to help babies in the NICU get home sooner, the Kangaroo™ NTrainer™ System 2.0 helps premature infants transition to independent oral feeding faster. Contact us Helping babies develop necessary oral feeding skills The Cardinal Health™ Kangaroo NTrainer™ System 2.0, the next evolut...
Revisiting Kangaroo Mother Care babies 20 years later The Kangaroo Foundation research compared 18 to 20 year olds who, as premature and low birth weight infants, had been randomized at birth to receive either Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) or traditional incubator care until they could maintain their...
Kangaroo Care--skin-to-skin contact between parent and baby--is becoming a popular adjunct to the routine, technology-driven care provided to premature babies in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) across the country. Research suggests that Kangaroo Care is safe and that it is therapeutic for...
Care for PREMATURE BABIES relies on incubators. Yet, there is NO EVIDENCE that incubators “do good”, they just do what they do, which is to warm and humidify. Mother’s chest warms and humidifies much more efficiently and better, as well as providing better heart, lung’ stomach and ...
The neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, can often be the first “home” of a premature baby. For this baby, there are more developmental marks that become much harder to achieve, compared to a full term infant. In the neonatal intensive care unit, babies often are placed on or in ma...
Designed to help babies in the NICU get home sooner, the Kangaroo™ NTrainer™ System 2.0 helps premature infants transition to independent oral feeding faster. Contact us Helping babies develop necessary oral feeding skills The Cardinal Health™ Kangaroo NTrainer™ System ...