What is happening around the world

How has the Kangaroo Care Day (May 15) impacted your unit or kangaroo care implementation efforts?

We asked clinicians around the world in May 2022, and this are some of their responses - Share with us how the Kangaroo Care Day has...

Advocate Children's Hospital Oak Lawn campus

Greetings! We began are Kangaroo-A-thon and it's off to a great start. We have a contest for parents, and staff. Here are some photos We...

EFCNI and GLANCE Network celebrate Kangaroo Care Awareness Day!

Our activities for KMC Day will include a storytelling activity on our Facebook and Instagram accounts where we will invite our community to share...

Alqassimi Womens and Children's Hospital Sharjah United Arab of Emirates celebrate KC Day for the first time.

by Buenafe Baldivicio Cala, GCC NIDCAP Coordinator, NIDCAP Professional We would like to share with you the first ever Kangaroo Care awareness Day in...

Laredo Medical Center celebrates Kangaroo Care Day with families in the NICU

Laredo Medical Center in Texas celebrated Kangaroo Care Day Awareness Day under the leadership of Ana Lecea, Yanira Villanueva, and Dr. Ramirez. ________________ ____________________________________ Mr. & Mrs. Dehoyos...

Avera NICU nurses spread awareness of International Kangaroo Care Awareness Day

Cincinnati - Kangaroo Care Day promotes skin-to-skin contact with parents, newborns

Kangaroo Care Day promotes skin-to-skin contact with parents, newborns CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Local healthcare providers are teaming up to meet the challenge. The St. Elizabeth neonatal intensive...

Father's experience of Kangaroo Care (KC) in Pakistan

At 37 weeks, Qamaruddin's wife gave birth to a 1.8 Kg baby boy at home. Faced with skepticism about the baby's survival due to...

Pakistan: A journey from gloom to hopefulness: “Parveen and Sadam are happy and feel good about Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC)”

Dr. Shabina Ariff and her team from Aga Khan University is conducting an implementation trial to improve uptake of KMC at community level. Dr. Shabina...

Kangaroo Care Video from The AGA KHAN University in Pakistan

This is the first local contextual Kangaroo Mother Care video in the country, an effort by Dr. Shabina Ariff and her team from Aga...

Al Qassimi Women's And Children's Hospital, Sharjah United Arabs of Emirates

Kangaroo Care Awareness Day is fast approaching from today and we are very excited about what the global will share with us in kangaroo Care...

MUST SEE! CHOA's NICU door getting ready for Kangaroo Care Week!

This is our door getting ready for Kangaroo Care Week 2020 Children's of Atlanta - NICU A raffle for gift baskets. Each mom gets...

Calling all mothers of NICU babies born after May 2017; and nurses with experience in Kangaroo Care in the NICU to participate in a Survey from Australia

Kangaroo Care Day is not part of this research but we are happy to share this information. "Researchers at The University of Queensland, Australia, are conducting a...

Cambridge University Hospitals 2018

International kangaroo care awareness day 2018 "Staff and families from our neonatal intensive care unit have been celebrating all things #Kangaroocare and #skintoskin. There...

International Kangaroo Care Day and Neonatal Improvement Program from Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia.

by Buenafe C. Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. This year we join the on its 2nd Year International Kangaroo Care Awareness Day in support...

A huge success at St. Joseph Women's Hospital in Tampa, FL

BayCare was present! Joseph’s Women's Hospital in Orlando, FL participated in Kangaroo-A _Thon on May 15. We had 19 babies/ moms / dad participate which was...

Ngozi, Burundi in Africa celebrates Kangaroo Care Day!

KMC foundation India 2019

On behalf of KMC foundation India I am happy to inform you that we have planned for a big program on 15th May at...

Hackensack Meridian Health at Hackensack, New Jersey, USA

By Christine The Hackensack Meridian Health at Hackensack UMC Neonatal Intensive Care Unit holds a Kangaroo-athon event twice a year; during the Fall and...

Winston Salem, NC

by Kelly We are going to try to achieve 200 hours for our Level 3 NICU in Winston Salem, NC. With each visit, parents...