Sentences with phrase «kangaroo care resulted»

The RCT evidence (1 +) suggests that the use of kangaroo care significantly reduces maternal anxiety around her infant and gives the mother a significantly greater sense of competence with their infant and a significantly greater sensitivity towards her infant.32 Furthermore, RCT evidence (1 +) suggests that music during kangaroo care resulted in significantly lower maternal anxiety.33

In a new analysis done at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard, researchers found that kangaroo care resulted in the following positive results:

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Kangaroo care also results in more sleep, good oxygen saturation, less agitation, many fewer episodes of apnea (no breathing) and more stable heart rates.

As a result, babies who experience regular Kangaroo Care often cry less and appear less agitated.

Simply put, through Kangaroo Care, baby's body learns to self - regulate, resulting in a regular and stable heart beat and breathing pattern.

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.

Kostandy et al., «Kangaroo Care (Skin Contact) Reduces Crying Response to Pain in Preterm Neonates: Pilot Results,» Pain Management Nursing 2008: 9:55 - 65