Welcome to the Official Website of the 2023 International Kangaroo Care Awareness Day (May 15)

Recording and Resources: In Touch With Experts: LIVE - Dr. Agnes Linnér - KMC in the NICU with ongoing intensive care and started immediately after birth.

To celebrate Kangaroo Care Day (May 15), we hosted three international guest experts in May 2022.
Click on the name of our guest expert to watch their recording:
Livio Provenzi, Ph.D. (Italy)     Dr. Agnes Linnér (Sweden)     Dr. Dorothy Vittner (USA)
For information about the three sessions, click here

KMC in the NICU with ongoing intensive care
and started immediately after birth.

Dr. Agnes Linnér (Neonatologist and Ph.D. candidate from Sweden) 

CONTACT: 

Linkedin Profile Dr. Agnes Linner 

Stina Klemming
0725830661
stina.klemming@skane.se
stina.klemming@regionstockholm.se
nidcap.sus@skane.se
 

RESOURCES: 

From Stina Klemming 2022.
Links for films and presentations on iKMC/iSSC, MNCC.

7,5 minutes filmed presentation on immediate Skin to Skin Contact for very preterm infants:

Presentation 54 min on Zero separation, immediate KMC and Mother-Newborn Couplet Care (MNCC):


2 minutes film on WHO’s studie iKMC-study May-21:

 

KMC training video for the iKMC study:
http://ultra-early-intervention.creo.tv/i/AhC8hUX8DHljFXInaKLZiw

 

4,5 minutes film from Vietnam on immediate KMC:

 

 


In Touch With Experts: LIVE is presented by:

in collaboration with

  

ABOUT KANGAROO CARE DAY: The International Kangaroo Care Awareness Day is an initiative founded by Yamile Jackson, Ph.D., PE, PMP on behalf of her son, Zachary, to improve the care of families through nurturing touch, kangaroo care, mental health, trauma-informed care, and education.  It is now celebrated in hospitals globally on May 15th since 2011. Visit www.kangaroo.care.

 

She also founded Nurtured by Design and engineered The Zaky® www.thezaky.com


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