We asked clinicians around the world in May 2022, and this are some of their responses -
Share with us what you are doing to celebrate Kangaroo Care Day this year - click here
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How are you celebrating Kangaroo Care Day (May 15)? Please specify if we can share this info in the www.kangaroo.care website and how to write your name/organization. |
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New Zealand |
we will be encouraging all parents to have long K-ray cuddles this day and everyday |
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USA |
We are having a kangaroo-a-thon which will end on that day. We will have a raffle with a gift basket giveaway on the 15th. |
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USA |
We will celebrate our team who make skin to skin care and Kangaroo Care possible each and every day! |
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USA |
We are holding a Kangaroo-A-Thon for all parents with a baby in our NICU. |
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USA |
With lots of stuff |
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USA |
Staff that assist with initiating KC place name in raffle. Standing and sitting transfer lab/workshop for staff training. |
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USA |
we hope to celebrate our first ever Kangaroo Day with every baby able to be held skin-to-skin doing so in the same day! |
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USA |
Not sure yet! Looking for inspiration |
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Usa |
By letting patents know how important skin to skin is |
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USA |
Wrapping up a 1 week celebration (hopefully - perhaps don't share since I'm not 100% positive we'll be doing this) |
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New Zealand |
Kia ora -It’s our first timer ever doing kangaroo-a-thin. So we have decided that we are going to tally the cuddles the whole month to see how many we get. Each parent gets a weekly cuddle care to record their cuddles. Then weekly we tally the whole units….. katahi the end of May we see as a unit how many we have done! |
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USA |
We are doing a kangaroo-a-thon!! |
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USA |
We are having a Kangaroo-a- thon in our NICU, Education for staff and parents, raffles send gift baskets for both staff and families, pictures with families participating in Kangaroo care, and a surprise guest- a Kangaroo for staff/ families to take pics with throughout the week. Fun facts about Kangaroo Care to be announced during safety briefings that week! |
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USA |
This year we are celebrating Kangaroo Care Day by hosting a Kangaroo-A-Thon from May 1-15. We are hoping to reach our unit goal of 150 hours of skin to skin time. We are doing a friendly competition with 2 other local hospitals to see who can get the most hours. We are also celebrating by making scrapbook pages for each of the families with pictures of them skin to skin, decorating kangaroo sugar cookies, giveaways, treat bags for parents while kangarooing, and lots of decorations on the unit. |
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USA |
May 16-29 hosting 2 skins skin classes and kangaroo-a-thon |
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USA |
Our unit has decorated communication boards located at our units entrance. We have displayed the QRS link for The Zaky app, benefits information in both English and Spanish. We have our count down to Kangaroo Care Day displayed where the parents enter and scrub in so it is easy to see and keep track of. We have purchased out Hershey kiss stickers and are communicating this special day with the parents as we round within the unit. A. Diaz, RN Baptist Hospital |
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USA |
We are planning a party, raffle and lots of decorations with education. I am not sure about being able to share this info on your website. I am sure there is someone at work that I must speak with first. |
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USA |
In the Covenant Healthcare Neonatal Unit we celebrate all month long with Kangaroo-a-thon with drawings for families who participate. We crown a prince and princess by calculating the frequency of skin to skin sessions. Provide educational information to families and staff members. Treats are provided and word puzzles are given for fun. |
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USA |
We are hosting a kangaroo-a-thon in our NICU hosted by our developmental team. Would prefer to stay anonymous, thank you! |
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USA |
We plan to kick off a week long friendly “competition” to get all our Moms providing as much Kangaroo Care as they can during the week, and ideally continue throughout their babies’ stay. |
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USA |
We will be having a kangaroo-a-thin on my unit, so a big part of my job during this time (and always!) is to facilitate skin-to-skin transfers with parents. It’s amazing to see their confidence increase when kangarooing, even with our smallest and most fragile of babies. |
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USA |
We are celebrating starting May 9-15. Games, gifts, articles, videos, pictures and more |
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USA |
Kangaroo Care incentives for staff who encourage/facilitate skin to skin interactions throughout the month of May. |
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USA |
We are hosting a week-long Kangaroo-A-Thon to promote kangaroo care. |
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USA |
We will run a kangaroo-a-thon with incentive prizes throughout first 2 weeks in May |
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US |
Organizing vendors and sponsors to provide goodies to parents, taking photos of infants with kangaroo care onesies and framing them for parents’ memories, friendly staff and parent competitions. |
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New Zealand |
The Omicron pandemic is quite active in Christchurch at the moment, So not quite sure. Thinking creatively |
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USA |
We are celebrating Kangaroo Care Day this year by stocking our unit with Zaky Wraps for Kangaroo Care! Going forward, all families will have the opportunity to use a wrap during skin to skin. Yes you can include on the website with UPH-Meriter name. |
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UK |
We will be holding a kangaroo-a-thon on the unit and raising awareness of the importance of skin to skin |
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Norway |
We are celebrating the Kangaroo Care Day with cake and balloons for families in our NICU. We will have a gathering where all the parents are invited to participate. The event will consist of a theoretical lecture about the benefits of skin-to-skin contact and why it is important to carry the preterm infant in a kangaroo shawl. |
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USA |
We started in April doing a high-fidelity simulation with nursing staff and respiratory therapists. May 1st we will begin our Kangaroo-a-thon with participation gifts given though out the two weeks and prizes for families and staff given on May 15th. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Brenner Children’s Hospital |
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Ireland |
Information campaign coffee morning gifts to parents and staff |
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USA |
Kangaroo-a-thon |
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USA |
I would like to help caregivers and babies do kangaroo care on this day for as long as they want! I will do kangaroo care with my own son on this day. I will promote its benefits to all I encounter throughout the month of May. |
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UK |
We are planning to celebrate by aiming for every baby on the unit to have kangaroo care care on that day. We will ask parental permission for photographs |
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USA |
We do a Kangaroo-a-thon every year -- moms and nurses have the chance to win a donated gift basket of goodies and baby care items. Every mom that can kangaroo puts their baby's name on a cut out kangaroo & we decorate our front desk with them. We keep up with the minutes and announce who kangaroo'd the most minutes in May! |
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Israel |
I coordinate a national forum in Israel of Nurse Lactation Consultants from NICUs around the country.Since 2018 we have been organizing Kangaroo-a-thons in all our NICUs to celebrate Kangaroo Care day. In 2018/9 we participated in the international Kangaroo-a-thon organized by Luisa King from Toronto.Since Covid we have organized National Kagaroo-a-thons each year.Last year 13 NICUs participated. You may publicize this. |
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USA |
We are getting baby onesies for all babies with our KC logo on onesies. Extra education for parents & staff. Maybe more for families if we get additional funding. Cupcakes for nurses and recognition & hospital incentive points when they are "caught by colleague" helping family KC. |
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Usa |
Gifts for families with a message about importance of skin to skin care - kangaroo charm for their journey jewels necklace, card about kangaroos, cuddle cover (breast feeding cover) to use during S2S. |
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USA |
We are hosting a Kangaroo-a-thon from Mother's Day to Father's Day where we encourage and reward skin to skin care every single day with little tokens of appreciation for the parents completing skin to skin with their babies. Amanda Lovercheck, Methodist Women's Hospital Omaha, NE |
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USA |
I consult with therapists in NICU and will continue to do so for May 15. |
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USA |
In our NICU for the past 10+ years we have had a huge Kangaroo Care-a-thon. Parents log KC time and are entered into raffle drawings. We have an adult size Kangaroo costume and walk about the NICU interacting with families. Staff can purchase t-shirts promoting KC care and are allowed to wear as part of our uniforms for this week. The week is a huge success, luncheons are held for the families and staff. This competition of KC hours extends thru the NICUs across the entire healthcare system. |
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USA |
We are displaying education on the unit about the benefits of kangaroo care. please do not share |
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Canada |
2 weeks of Kangaroo Care beginning May 15. Prizes. Our Section Head wears his kangaroo costume and visits families. "Caught you promoting kangaroo care" prizes for staff. |
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USA |
Mandela kangaroo coloring for siblings and parents.Cincinnati themed basket giveaway raffle for parents. Girl Scout cookies for parents - looking for kangaroo sticker to affix to baggies. |
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USA |
We annually do a Kangaroo-a-thon week around Kangaroo Care Day. We advocate for parents to kangaroo their babies and parents and staff receive raffle tickets for each session of Kangaroo care. There are gift basket drawings at the end of the week. Advent Health for Children NICU |
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USA |
Increasing awareness of benefits. Hanging signs. Using kangaroo care kits. |
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USA |
We encourage as much skin to skin as possible. Highlight the day for the organizations. Have previously held a month long competition for nurses for most time of KCC for their patients. |
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USA |
We are hosting an educational event with the public and our nursing staff (e.g., posters, handouts). I am also doing a poster to provide education on the psychological aspects of parental and infant bonding in NICU. |
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USA |
Kangaroo-a-thon |
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Canada |
Kangaroo challenge |
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US |
We are going to paint our patient windows with kangaroos and pass out cards to our parents about the benefits of Kangaroo Care! |
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USA |
Our hospital is part of the FPQC Paired Initiative in the state of Florida. This initiative supports early STS with eligible infants in the NICU. It encourages parents to be part of infants care and communication with their infants health care providers. For celebrating kangaroo care day, One of the staff(that would be) dresses in a kangaroo suit and we have ordered Kangaroo cookies for staff and patients on our OB unit. We will also have gifts for a drawing for the parents that do the most STS |
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USA |
Kangaroo a thon |
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USA |
Giving out stuffed kangaroos and handouts each day in the bedside “pouch”. Stickers for everyone that say “How do you kangaroo?” Portneuf Medical Center |
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Finland |
We are launching a guided video for parents about kangaroo care. |
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Uk |
Promoting it to all staff and parents. Produce posters and leaflets. Photos to be taken. |
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USA |
As a neonatal OT, a large part of my role is facilitating safe skin-to-skin transfers of even our most fragile babies and educating families on the many amazing benefits of KC! |
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USA |
We will be raising awareness by making available info/fact sheets about KC to our families in the NICU as well as have a poster available for families and staff at the entrance of our NICU. Yes you can share info on your website with the name of the organization listed already. |
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England UK |
The neonatal unit at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust will start celebrating from 1st May. I will have posters and boarder with educational articles explaining what it is and why. Will encourage parents to share photos with us and on our Facebook site and Twitter. I will ask our communications department to share photos and stories.I am hoping to share our information with the “slings library” in Coventry to keep it going at home. |
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USA |
Educating and Celebrating group of women at a SUD residential facility. |
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USA |
lunch being provided to staff and families, each family will get a bag dedicated to skin to skin, kangaroo-a-thon |
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USA |
On Kangaroo Care Day we will be celebrating with our staff to promote parent-infant attachment and bonding. We will be giving each NICU parent a Kangaroo book to read at the bedside. We will also be raffling off a Kangaroo basket with newborn essentials, a stuffed kangaroo, and a sleep sac for use when the baby is discharged. Each staff member is decorating kangaroo to decorate the hallway to the NICU. A 4 foot stuffed kangaroo will be placed at the entrance of the unit. |
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USA |
We have information throughout unit with posters and places for parents to take pictures of themselves with infant during KC time. We have tickets to place in basket with amount of time during KC and have contest. We have unit basket raffle for staff also. An ice-cream day for first day and cookies on last day. |
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USA |
We have a group that is planning our festivities |
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USA |
We hold a 2 week Kangaroo a thon with prizes for both staff and babies/parents. We hold a potluck on May 15th to kick it off. Through out the time we have trivia questions, scrape book pages for parents to track their time and staff/Dr’s dressed as kangaroos. Kangaroo cookies and activities happen over the 2 weeks. |
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USA |
We will be having a kangaroo a thon with our families and a small competition with our team members to get moms and dads holding babies! Do not share our information please. We even have someone dressing up as a kangaroo! :) |
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Scotland |
We will be decorating the neonatal unit with balloons and posters. We will be raising awareness of the importance of skin to skin and rolling out out parent transfer video. |
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Saudi Arabia |
We are planning to. Do small ceremonies in said the nicu we will invite the family’s and owner the mother with most kangaroo hours |
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England |
Nottingham University Hospitals Neonatal Unit, We are celebrating with our staff in a giant kangaroo suit, kangaroo colouring and kangaroo quiz! |
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USA |
Kangaroo a thon |
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UK |
Coffee mornings, poster displays of why skin to-skin is important. Educational, sessions. Involving the community too |
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USA |
I will be hosting a small information session inside my office, Ebb & Flow Lactation Services. I will be providing information and providing a small, informal talk about Kangaroo Mother Care, located inside the "the Nest", 217 Columbus Rd, Suite 103, Athens, OH 45701. Contact Julie Gladney, BS, LPN, IBCLC julie@ebbflowlactation.com for more information or go https://ebbflowlactation.com |
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USA |
Hosting a kangaroo-a-thon |
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UK |
Having skin-to-skin Champions training and supporting parents and staff to promote skin -o-skin. Celebrating with reward/ gifts/ certificates for both parents and staff, including bitesize teaching on developmental care |
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UK |
Displays relating to information for parents |
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Brasil |
Local action with professionals and family members. |
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USA |
We have not decided yet |
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USA |
Would love these cards to further promote it with our families |