All About Skin-to-Skin and Kangaroo Care
Birthful
Adriana Lozada
4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Skin-to-skin and kangaroo care can improve neurological development and health, lower stress and crying, help breastfeeding, reduce postpartum depression. The list of benefits seems to go on and on. Research shows that skin-to-skin is even more important for preemies. How simple is it to do, and how long should you do it for? Sylvia Houston tells us more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the birthful podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada, and today we'll be talking about skin to skin. |
| 0:18.4 | Skin to skin and kangaroo care can improve neurological development and |
| 0:22.2 | health, lower stress and crying, help breastfeeding, reduced postpartum depression. The list |
| 0:28.5 | seems to go on and on. How simple is it to do and how long should you do it for? Sylvia Houston |
| 0:34.3 | tells us more. Stay tuned. |
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| 1:05.0 | Hello, Mamas and Mamas to Be. I want to thank you once again for all the love you're giving the show, and you have no idea how happy I get from your comments and suggestions. So I want to thank you once again for all the love you're giving the show and you have no |
| 1:11.3 | idea how happy I get from your comments and suggestions. So I wanted to share some of those with you. |
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| 1:28.4 | podcast, you ask what we would like to hear about. I was wondering if you would consider speaking |
| 1:33.2 | with an expert about gestational diabetes and how birth and the few hours after birth might look. |
| 1:38.5 | What are the risks, real risks, and how can a physiological labor be achieved when placed into this category, especially when |
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