Benefits of Skin Contact with Babies
As it turned out, direct contact between skin mama with baby skin (aka kangaroo care) has various benefits. Starting from stabilizing your little one’s heart rate, making your little one sleep better, to making breastfeeding easier.
Initially, kangaroo care was carried out in Colombia in the 1970s to deal with the drastic increase in premature infant mortality.
How? Place the baby in the mama’s ‘pocket’ (blouse or t-shirt) and warm her body for at least 1 hour per day, several times a week. In this way, the baby will receive optimal health benefits.
Cleveland Clinic, academic medical center in Ohio and one of the best hospitals in the US offers steps to warm up the ‘kangaroo‘little mama, namely:
1. Mama wears clothes that are open at the front. Take off your bra or underwear.
2. Remove all clothes except the diaper.
3. Put the baby on the chest facing Mom, then cover her with a mama’s blouse or shirt.
4. Forget about wanting to play with babies. Sit back and relax.
