Preemies' brains reap long-term benefits from Kangaroo Mother Care
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Kangaroo Mother Care -- a technique in which a breastfed premature infant remains in skin-to-skin contact with the parent's chest rather than being placed in an incubator -- has lasting positive impact on brain development. Very premature infants who benefited from this technique had better brain functioning in adolescence -- comparable to that of adolescents born at term -- than did premature infants placed in incubators.