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Very Preterm Babies Benefit From Skin To Skin Contact |
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Canadian researchers found that skin to skin contact with their mothers, often termed kangaroo mother care (KMC), helped very preterm babies born between 28 and 32 weeks of pregnancy by reducing the stress of painful medical procedures. The study is published in the online issue of the BioMed Central journal BMC Pediatrics and is the work of researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and other colleagues in Canada.
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