Could a mom who is choosing to or who has to use formula still benefit
from Kangaroo Care?
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From stretchy wraps to soft structured carriers, my favorites carriers are the ones that allow you to be skin to skin with your baby, as there are well - documented benefits of
kangaroo care for premature and full term infants.
Instead of separating premature babies
from their mothers, more doctors are using
Kangaroo Care, which promotes skin - to - skin contact between mother and baby and exclusive breastfeeding.
According to Dr. Jennifer Peterson,
from the Cleveland Clinic Children's, «
Kangaroo care can actually decrease the heart rate, improve the breathing pattern, improve the oxygen levels in the premature babies.
Dads can choose
from the basic cummerbund style for skin - to - skin, or a black or gray
kangaroo care t - shirt.
Take a page
from our healthy -
from - the - start handbook: There are loads of easy ways to feel close to the new love of your life,
from feeding time to
kangaroo care to simple smiles and lots of eye contact.
A valid proof of this comes
from the neonatal
Kangaroo care method (K method), which requires skin to skin contact between the mother and the newborn baby.
For example, doctors
from the Pediatric Department in New Delhi hospital in India conducted a randomized control trial of the effects of the
Kangaroo mother
care method.
Additionally, some babies benefit
from skin - to - skin contact, an aspect of
Kangaroo Care.
«
Kangaroo Care» (KC) means doing skin - to - skin contact between baby and mother (or father), anything
from 10 minutes to an hour or more a day.
My husband and I did shifts and were there
from 7 am to 11.30 pm doing
kangaroo care.
With the wealth of knowledge I received at BOND, the confidence and inspiration
from my peers, along with my background in Babywearing I was able to create a full early infant attachment,
kangaroo care, safe sleep (including Breastsleeping), and Babywearing class and teach it at my local shelter for new and expectant moms, as well as provide carriers with donations
from two different companies whose reps I first met at BOND.
From this very first
kangaroo care until 72 days later when he finally came home I would spend majority of my days in the NICU doing
kangaroo care with him.
Kangaroo Mother
Care is an effective way to meet a premature baby's needs for warmth, frequent breastfeeding, protection
from infection, stimulation, safety and love.
I enjoy
caring for preemies at every stage of their young lives -
from the touch and go fragility of newly born preemies, to the hard - earned celebrations for accomplishments like taking a full bottle or having no apnea during a
kangaroo care time.
In short, I can not find any evidence - based reason for your NICU to prohibit all infants born before 28 weeks of gestation
from experiencing
kangaroo mother
care.
KRISTEN STRATTON: Can
Kangaroo Care still be as beneficial to a mom who is separated
from her baby due to an NICU state or a cesarean birth?
SEJAL FICHADIA: So
Kangaroo Care benefits of breastfeeding relationship by releasing that oxytocin like one of the moms on the panels said, you know, that oxytocin release helps with the let down of the milk, and another thing that it also does is that when babies are on their mom's chest, they are already so close to their food source that they do not have to make a lot of effort to wake up and find and learn that say shoulder calories
from being extended and also, the fearing of calm and connectedness that comes with breastfeeding, lets the mom relaxed and enjoy breastfeeding instead of being worried about were her baby would when she wants to breastfeed.
Just need a short break
from skin to skin or
kangaroo care?
Studies have shown that moms who practice
Kangaroo Care from the start are more likely to continue exclusive breastfeeding when they bring baby home.
Although the results were not completely straightforward, because the researchers explained that it's hard to separate
kangaroo care from other things that the parents did — a mom may perform skin - to - skin while she's breastfeeding, for example, or a father could perform skin - to - skin while reading a book to his baby — they did find some suggestions that skin - to - skin
care had some benefits to the families.
The interventions included a variety of programs
from health
care interventions (
kangaroo care, infant massage) to parent discussion and training groups.
However, there's much more that can be done to protect your children
from skin issues such as
kangaroo care method for new mom.
I ended up with an ovarian blood clot at 4 days PP (rare complication), was being assessed in the ER literally as my milk was coming in, supplemented with formula almost immediately because I was so pumped full of drugs I could not coordinate nursing a little tiny sleepy baby, suffered
from low supply due to the meds I was put on for my blood clot, did
kangaroo care for hours and hours every day for weeks on end, shared sleep, took herbal supplements, pumped frequently, nursed almost constantly, hand expressed the milk into her mouth at every feeding because she was too sleepy to latch well, struggled with massive guilt......................
With funding
from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WHO is working in three districts in India and 14 woredas in Ethiopia to scale - up
Kangaroo Mother
Care.
Jessica has worked at veterinary practices,
caring for everything
from dogs and cats to
kangaroos.
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