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

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

• “Immediate Kangaroo Mother Care and Survival of Infants with Low Birth Weight” WHO Immediate KMC Study Group*
• Publication: KMC by surrogate can have an effect equal to KMC by mother in improving the nutritional behavior and arterial oxygen saturation of the preterm infant: results of a controlled randomized clinical trial

• Publication: Mother-Newborn Couplet Care from theory to practice to ensure zero separation for all newborns by Stina Klemming | Siri Lilliesköld | Björn Westrup

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:

For the extremely preterm infants these are our references:

62.                     Karlsson V, Heinemann AB, Sjors G, Nykvist KH, Agren J. Early skin-to-skin care in extremely preterm infants: thermal balance and care environment. J Pediatr. 2012; 161(3):422-6.

63.                     Casper C, Sarapuk I, Pavlyshyn H. Regular and prolonged skin-to-skin contact improves short-term outcomes for very preterm infants: A dose-dependent intervention. Arch Pediatr. 2018; 25(8):469-75.

64.                     Clarke P, Allen E, Atuona S, Cawley P. Delivery room cuddles for extremely preterm babies and parents: concept, practice, safety, parental feedback. Acta Paediatr. 2021; 110(5):1439-49.

65.                     Welfare. Care of extremely premature babies. A guide to the care of children born before 28 full weeks of pregnancy in 2014 [Available from: https://neo.barnlakarforeningen.se/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2020/01/Underburen-f%C3%B6rev28_2014-9-10.pdf.

66.                     Kimkool P, Huang S, Gibbs D, Banerjee J, Deierl A. Cuddling very and extremely preterm babies in the delivery room is a positive and normal experience for mothers after the birth. Acta Paediatr. 2022; 111(5):952-60.

67.                     Mehler K, Hucklenbruch-Rother E, Trautmann-Villalba P, Becker I, Roth B, Kribs A. Delivery room skin-to-skin contact for preterm infants-A randomized clinical trial. Acta Paediatr. 2020; 109(3):518-26.