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Thomson, Hartsock, & Larson (1979) was one of the first to research the importance of immediate postnatal contact. The main focus of his research was on how kangaroo care helped with successful breastfeeding (Thomson et al., 1979).

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The term "kangaroo mother care" was developed in Columbia due to the increase in preterm infant deaths in Bogotá because of the lack of resources and nursing staff available (Popan, 2020).

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Rey & Martinez found that kangaroo care in low birth weight infants increased hospital survival rates from 30 to 70 percent (Bhutta, Darmstadt, Hasan, & Haws., 2005).

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English speaking health professionals became aware of the kangaroo care benefits through UNICEF's "The State of the World's Children 1984" and an article by Whitelaw and Sleath in 1985 (Popan, 2020).

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Kangaroo care in North America became widely recommended for not just preterm infants, but full term infants as well due to its benefits (Popan, 2020).

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Christensson (1996) found that fathers doing kangaroo care helped in the regulation of neonatal temperature just as well as incubators did in the hospital, making them also viable options for reducing hypothermia in newborns.

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de Macedo, Cruvinel, Lukasova, and D'Antino (2007) found that not only did kangaroo care improve the health of the neonates, it also decreased postpartum depression in the mothers as well.

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Ropars, Tessier, Charpak, and Uriza (2018) conducted a longitudinal study that looked at neonates 20 years after birth to see if kangaroo care affected them long term; moreover, it was found that the neonates who were neurologically vulnerable that experienced kangaroo care had higher IQ and sustained attention scores than those who received traditional care in the hospital.

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