Describe kangaroo care, and explain its benefits to low-birthweight newborns placed in intensive care nurseries
What will be an ideal response
Responses should describe how mothers hold their infants between their breasts
skin-to-skin, allowing them to feel their body heat for at least an hour each day.
Benefits for infants include deeper sleep, more time alert, and more responsiveness
to their mothers than from standard care.
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