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Kangaroo Care: The Best You Can Do to Help Your Preterm Infant

Kangaroo Care: The Best You Can Do to Help Your Preterm Infant

Paperback

Medical ReferenceWomen's HealthBaby Care

ISBN10: 0553372459
ISBN13: 9780553372458
Publisher: Bantam
Published: Sep 1 1993
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
GIVE YOUR PRETERM BABY THE BEST POSSIBLE START IN LIFE

If you have just given birth to a preterm infant, you and your baby both face special challenges. Parents long to help their baby but often feel isolated and frightened by hospital procedures.

Now there is wonderful news for both babies and parents. Kangaroo Care, a technique pioneered in leading neonatal centers worldwide, gives you a unique role: a special way of holding your infant that provides crucial health benefits--including shorter hospital stays.

Based on ground-breaking research, Kangaroo Care is a step-by-step guide to bringing these benefits to your baby--even if your neonatal unit does not yet have a Kangaroo Care program. It explains:

- Why Kangaroo Care enhances your baby's development

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