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Kangaroo Care

Kangaroo Care. Miracle of mother. Junhaeng Lee. What is kangaroo care?. Care system for baby. Especially good for premature babies and in neonatal ICU. Use chest of mother instead of incubator. The history of kangaroo care. Starts from Colombia in south America.(1983)

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Kangaroo Care

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  1. Kangaroo Care Miracle of mother Junhaeng Lee

  2. What is kangaroo care? • Care system for baby. • Especially good for premature babies and in neonatal ICU. • Use chest of mother instead of incubator.

  3. The history of kangaroo care • Starts from Colombia in south America.(1983) • It spread out to Europe and U.S.A • In the U.S.A, 84 % of neonatal ICU are doing kangaroo care.

  4. Why? How? • Skin to skin • Chest to chest • Upright • Never flat • It is important that baby skin from bellybutton up to the sternum is completely in contact with parent skin.

  5. Why? How? • When baby come to the chest of mother, the temperature of mother is going high until baby feel warm. • After baby feel warm, the temperature of mother is going down. • The change of the temperature start immediately after baby come to the chest. • Temperature changes several times in a minutes. Depends on the temperature of baby.

  6. Why? How? • Infection? • Incubator is more dangerous than mother’s chest. • Because of less cry, deeper sleep and less stress, the level of immunity is increased. • More than 500 researches that compare babies in incubator and kangaroo care shows that babies who got kangaroo care have better condition.

  7. Why? How? Full 2~3 cycles of the sleep in 3 hours. No cycling, no good quiet regular sleep

  8. Why? How?

  9. Mother is better than incubators. Thank you.

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