Salma Shabaik holds her newborn son, Ali. When he was born, she held him naked against her bare skin, a practice called kangaroo care. Ali is wearing an ear cap to correct a lop ear. (Morgan Walker ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KWWL) -- With National Kangaroo Awareness Day coming up on May 15, UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's NICU nurses are sharing the benefits of kangaroo care. It's a method of holding a ...
Might extensive skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their mothers — dubbed kangaroo care — offer health benefits for the babies? THIS STUDY analyzed data on more than 215,000 newborns, gleaned ...