Kangaroo Mother Care Experiment

The pilot study aimed at determining whether kangaroo mother care decreases heart and respiration rates in preterm newborns, affects saturation of peripheral oxygen and length of newborns' hospital stay at a neonatal intensive care unit, and influences mother-child interaction. Methods: The method of study was an experiment. To assess the effect of kangaroo mother care, physiological functions were measured. Mother-child interaction was assessed using the Maternal Postnatal Attachment Scale (MPAS). Statistical analyses were carried out with a two-sample t-test, non-parametric Wilcoxon test, chisquare test and Fischer's exact test. The statistical tests were evaluated at a significance level of 5%. Results: Of the physiological functions studied, …show more content…
However, direct skin-to skin contact between the infant and mother may stabilize the infant’s temperature in the thermal neutral range, stabilize the infant’s vital signs, respiratory pattern, and oxygenation, resulting in decreased apneic events, encourage more homogenous sleep patterns and potentially result in better weight gain ( 7,13,20,23 ).A number of studies have investigated the physiological effects of KMC when used with premature infants and reported that with KMC, the premature infants typically snuggles into the breast and is deeply sleep within just a few minutes. Thus, these premature infants gain weight faster than their
Non-kangarooed counterparts and it is interesting to note that they usually do not lose any of their birth weight (21, 22). Maternal breast milk supply becomes streamlined, making it easier for the mother to breastfeed the offspring for a longer duration that increased breast milk supply(19,21
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