Kangaroo Method for the Premature Babies.

Kangaroo Method for the Premature Babies.

METHOD FOR TREATING kangaroo premature infants

Kangaroo Method for the baby 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?

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 kangaroos METHOD FOR BABY :

• Improve maternal emotional relationships between mother and her child
• Stabilizing body temperature, heart rate, and infant respiratory
• Increasing the growth and infant weight better
• Strea-Reducing maternal and infant
• 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 kangaroo METHOD :

-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 use clothe with larger sizes of the bodies the mother and the baby is placed between the breasts, 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 in back mom.

-If the mother needs to rest, can be replaced by the father or someone else.

-In preparation for implementation need to be considered the mother, baby, baby's position, monitoring the baby, how give breast milk, and maternal and infant hygiene.