Book description
Kangaroo Mother Care was created to help low-birth-weight-infants
develop into healthy babies. Newborn babies remain with their mothers
who supply the benefits of incubator care; babies are bound to their
mothers, or other carers, in skin-to-skin contact. The physical
contact regulates the babies' body temperature, and provides essential
stimulation, as well as initiating bonding. Providing a history and
beautifully illustrated practical guide to kangaroo mothering,
Nathalie Charpak provides an essential guide to an approach that will
change the way mothers relate to newborn babies, and improve the way
hospitals treat premature babies.
Nathalie Charpak is the daughter of the Nobel Prize winning
physicist, George Charpak, and is an internationally respected
paediatrician. She has lived in Colombia, where Kangaroo Care was
developed, for over twenty years and is the Director of the Kangaroo
Foundation.
