Kangaroo Mother Care

• Photographer
  roberto huner

Tokoin Teaching Hospital Lomè, Togo, West Africa. After births, premature infants need a high level of medical treatments for their survivals in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). The separation deprives mothers of the chance to initiate an attachment process. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is an ambulatory care technique for the low birth weight infants, which implicate the portage of the infant in Kangaroo position with skin-to-skin contact. KMC can be one of the ways to reunite mothers and their infants in the NICU and improve health outcomes. KMC has a significant positive impact on the infant’s perceptual-cognitive and motor development.