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Kangaroo Mother Care Overview and Benefits by SREEDEVI T SURESH is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) involves keeping premature or low birth weight infants in skin-to-skin contact with their mothers. This promotes breastfeeding, thermal regulation, infection prevention and bonding. Key components of KMC are prolonged, continuous skin-to-skin contact and exclusive breastfeeding. KMC can be initiated in the hospital and continued at home, and benefits infants through increased breastfeeding, better temperature control, earlier discharge from the hospital, and reduced morbidity.
- Author
- SREEDEVI T SURESH
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- EN