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Premature babies majorly benefit from skin-to-skin contact with a parent –also known as “kangaroo care”– because it reduces infections and hypothermia and increases weight gain and parental involvement.

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• Preterm birth: Babies born before 37 weeks of gestation. Complications from prematurity kill more than 900,000 children each year.
• Incubator: An enclosed apparatus providing a controlled environment for premature babies.
• Sepsis: A life-threatening complication from infection.
• Hypothermia: A medical emergency that occurs when the body loses heat faster than it can produce it.

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Conde‐Agudelo A, Díaz‐Rossello JL. (2016). Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality in low birthweight infants. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Issue 8. Art. No.: CD002771. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD002771.pub4

Samra, N. M., Taweel, A. E., & Cadwell, K. (2013). Effect of intermittent kangaroo mother care on weight gain of low birth weight neonates with delayed weight gain. The Journal of perinatal education, 22(4), 194–200. https://doi.org/10.1891/1058-1243.22.4.194

Thidarat Eksirinimit, Busakorn Punthmatharith, Nongyao Bansopit, Kiatkamjorn Kusol. (2023). Effects of Kangaroo Care on body temperature of premature infants and maternal satisfaction at Maharaj Nakhon Si Thammarat hospital, Thailand. Journal of Neonatal Nursing, Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 302-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnn.2022.07.005

Sugandha Arya, Suhail Chhabra, Richa Singhal, et al. (2023) Effect on neonatal sepsis following immediate kangaroo mother care in a newborn intensive care unit: a post-hoc analysis of a multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial, eClinicalMedicine, Volume 60. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102006

Kangaroo Mother Care. (2023) Givewell. https://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/kangaroo-mother-care#What_is_the_problem