Method or the care of the baby kangaroo was found closely since 1983, is very useful for treating babies born with low weight during the treatment either in hospital or at home. Whether and how to do it?
METHOD FOR TREATING kangaroo premature infants
Method or the care of the baby kangaroo was found closely since 1983, is very useful for treating babies born with low weight during the treatment either in hospital or at home.
Kangaroo method is able to meet basic needs of low birth weight babies by providing situations and conditions similar to the mother’s womb, so as to give an opportunity to be able to adapt well to the outside world.
BENEFITS FROM THE INSIDE CAN TREATMENT METHOD FOR BABY kangaroos:
Improve maternal emotional relationships - children
Stabilizing body temperature, heart rate, and infant respiratory
Increasing the growth and infant weight better
Reducing long-crying in infants
Improving the emotional state of mothers and babies
Increase production breast milk
Reduce the risk of infection during treatment in hospital
Shorten the nurse at the hospital
WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA FOR THE BABY TO THE METHOD kangaroo:
Infants weighing ≤ 2000 g
There is no disorder or disease that accompanies
Reflexes and coordination of sucking and swallowing a good
The development of an incubator for good
Preparedness and participation of parents, very supportive in the success.
HOW DO kangaroo METHOD:
Give baby clothes, hats, diapers and socks that have been heated in advance
Put the baby in the mother’s chest, in an upright position directly to the skin of the mother and make sure the baby’s head was immobilized on the mother’s chest. Position your baby with the elbow and legs bent, head and chest located in the mother’s chest with his head slightly up.
Can also wearing clothes with larger sizes of the bodies the mother and the baby is placed between the breast, stretched clothes, then she wore a scarf wrapped around his stomach so the baby’s mother did not fall.
When the clothes she could not support a baby, you can use a towel or a wide, elastic fabric or bags made so to keep the baby’s body.
She can move freely, be free to move while standing, sitting, walk, eat and talk. At bedtime, the mother half-sitting position, or by putting a few pillows behind your back mom.
If the mother needs to rest, can be replaced by the father or someone else.
In preparation for its implementation need to be considered the mother, baby, baby’s position, monitoring the baby, how breastfeeding, and maternal and infant hygiene.
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