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

Kangaroo Care During COVID-19

Undeniably parents are irreplaceable and important healthcare providers for their babies and during the pandemic we need to keep relying on science and the evidence of kangaroo care.

Click here
for Kangaroo Care during COVID-19, 
and the latest recommendations at birth, post partum, and NICU/PICU.

"Kangaroo Care for as long as possible, as frequent as possible, and as uninterrupted as possible" is recommended by the AAP.

Thanks to all the professionals and organizations that continue providing information about Kangaroo Care / Skin to Skin contact during COVID-19. Send info, suggestions, questions, share stories to info@kangaroo.care