A Kangaroo Mother Care research study: a work in progress

Kangaroo Mother Care is a method of preterm infant care which involves skin-to-skin contact between caregiver and infant. The programme emerged out of necessity in Bogota, Colombia to compensate for a lack of medical equipment, but is progressively becoming routine practice in London hospitals to foster the development of the mother-infant and father-infant relationship. A Bliss-funded research project is being carried out to analyse the psychological effects that this method of care has on both the parents and their preterm infants.

Robyn L. Curran, Lucia Genesoni, Angela Huertas Ceballos, Maria A. Tallandini