Kangaroo care, is a method of baby care, where premature babies are held on mothers breast, facing their moms, based on breast feeding and establishing and maintaining the bond between mother and baby.
Skin to skin was developed in South America to help premature infants be discharged early from overcrowded hospitals.
Physicians recommend that babies should meet their mother as soon as possible after birth and have skin contact whether mother gives birth in natural ways or by c-section surgery.
Skin contact also ensures to create a strong bond between baby and mother and helps them to accept and get used to each other. Forming a strong bond between mother and baby is critical in mother's care for baby and baby's showing the desired development.
Benefits of skin contact for baby:
- Baby's sleep duration will be longer.
- Rapid weight gain and increased growth rate which are important for every mother.
- You baby will nurse in more efficiently in the first nursing.
- Crying and discomfort period will be shorter.
- Mother's voice, the muttering of baby are triggers for your baby's neurological and cognitive development.
- Hearth beat, respiration, body heat, blood sugar values important for new born babies are stabilized.
- Your baby can adjust to outer world easier.
Benefits of skin contact for mother:
- It improves the bond between mother and baby.
- Increases mother milk. As the mother's milk reflexes are stimulated, milk production starts and the adequate amount for baby is produced.
- It is effective in extending nursing process.
- Mother feels more confident in nursing her baby.
- Ensures that mother feel more confident about baby care.
- Diminishes the probability of after birth depression.
- Ensures that mother adapts to her mother role faster.
- The pain in mother's breast reduces significantly as of the 3rd day of birth.
- Mother has less anxiety.
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