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Nestling skin-to-skin right after birth saves fragile babies’ lives

A low-tech method called ‘kangaroo mother care’ sharply cuts a high-risk newborn’s risk of death.
A mother holding her newborn baby skin-to-skin

A mother keeps her baby against her skin, a form of care shown to improve the survival chances for very small babies. Credit: Conrad Bornman/Gallo Images/Getty

Vulnerable infants have a better chance of survival if they start receiving ‘kangaroo mother care’ — which calls for babies to spend as much time as possible in direct contact with a caregiver’s skin — immediately after birth.

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Nature 594, 10 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01413-0

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