Females have one baby at a time, which at birth is smaller than a cherry ... establishing water sources—both of which are boons to kangaroo populations. Many millions of these animals roam ...

Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a method of caring for preterm and low birth weight infants that involves skin-to-skin contact between the infant and the parent, typically the mother. This approach ...

At birth, the tree kangaroo joey is the size of a jellybean, and the majority of its physical development occurs in the mother’s pouch. Joeys don’t emerge fully from the pouch for about seven ...

Aim: Evaluation of the efficacy and safety of immediate initiation of continuous kangaroo care following delivery in low-birthweight infants. Setting: Five tertiary hospitals in Ghana, India, Malawi, ...

Pediatric Department, CHU Cocody, Mother and Child Department, Faculty of Medicine, Felix Houphouët Boigny University, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. This study took place in the kangaroo care unit of the ...

The Matschie's tree kangaroo is endemic to the Huon Peninsula ... Female tree kangaroos give birth to one offspring after a gestation period of approximately 44 days. After birth, the fetus ...

Aims Extremely premature infants are at higher risk for intracranial ischaemic and haemorrhagic injuries, which often occur in the first 72 hours after birth. 1 Intraventricular haemorrhages (IVHs ...

A midwife has created a “game-changing” new product that could revolutionize neonatal care and improve outcomes for tiny newborn babies. Stacey Boyle has invented a special set of scrubs for ...

Background and Aims Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is conventionally initiated in a baby who is otherwise stable but may still be on intravenous fluids, tube feeding and/or oxygen. We hypothesized that ...